So I am attempting for my first time to use CI's built in form_validation "tool" to much avail and research I can't seem to grasp it. I have everything in my view setup correctly and my controller seems to be right on... My problem is when I click the "submit" button it links to the new function but doesn't display any error messages regardless of what I put in the "name" , "email" boxes. I'm looking to have it display an error message practically anywhere right now I just need it to run through the validation and display an error message.
Controller file
public function intelli()
{
$data["messages"] = "";
$this->load->view('engage_header');
$this->load->view('engage_nav');
$this->load->view('intelli/content_intelli', $data);
$this->load->view('engage_footer');
}
public function intelli_email()
{
$this->load->helper('form', 'url'));
$this->load->library('form_validation');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('name_area', 'Name', 'required|alpha|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('email_area', 'Email', 'required|valid_email|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('phone_area', 'Phone', 'is_numeric|xss_clean');
if ($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE) {
$data["messages"] = "";
} else {
$data["messages"] = "The Email has successfully been sent";
}
$this->load->view('engage_header');
$this->load->view('engage_nav');
$this->load->view('intelli/content_intelli', $data);
$this->load->view('engage_footer');
}
View file
<?php
$this->load->helper("form");
?>
<div class="request_demo">
<div id="request_logo"></div>
<div id="top_paragraph">
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</div>
<div id="entry_box">
<?php echo validation_errors();
echo $messages;
?>
<div id="request_form">
<?php echo form_open('/index.php/site/intelli_email')?>
<input id="name_area" type="text" placeholder="NAME" value="" required/><br/>
<input id="email_area" type="text" placeholder="EMAIL" value="" required/><br/>
<input id="phone_area" type="text" placeholder="PHONE" value=""><br/>
<input id="submit_req" type="submit" value="SUBMIT">
</form>
</div>
</div>
I know the code is sloppy right now, but I'm just looking for functionality over beauty. also noted since I am loading the helper('form') inside the controller it is redundant to load it in the view.