CodeIgniter - File upload required validation

Question

I have 2 text fields and 1 file upload that are all required. Everything works when I require just the text fields, but when I require the file upload the validation error s

Answer 1

you can solve it by overriding the Run function of CI_Form_Validation

copy this function in a class which extends CI_Form_Validation .

This function will override the parent class function . Here i added only a extra check which can handle file also

/**
 * Run the Validator
 *
 * This function does all the work.
 *
 * @access  public
 * @return  bool
 */
function run($group = '') {
    // Do we even have any data to process?  Mm?
    if (count($_POST) == 0) {
        return FALSE;
    }

    // Does the _field_data array containing the validation rules exist?
    // If not, we look to see if they were assigned via a config file
    if (count($this->_field_data) == 0) {
        // No validation rules?  We're done...
        if (count($this->_config_rules) == 0) {
            return FALSE;
        }

        // Is there a validation rule for the particular URI being accessed?
        $uri = ($group == '') ? trim($this->CI->uri->ruri_string(), '/') : $group;

        if ($uri != '' AND isset($this->_config_rules[$uri])) {
            $this->set_rules($this->_config_rules[$uri]);
        } else {
            $this->set_rules($this->_config_rules);
        }

        // We're we able to set the rules correctly?
        if (count($this->_field_data) == 0) {
            log_message('debug', "Unable to find validation rules");
            return FALSE;
        }
    }

    // Load the language file containing error messages
    $this->CI->lang->load('form_validation');

    // Cycle through the rules for each field, match the
    // corresponding $_POST or $_FILES item and test for errors
    foreach ($this->_field_data as $field => $row) {
        // Fetch the data from the corresponding $_POST or $_FILES array and cache it in the _field_data array.
        // Depending on whether the field name is an array or a string will determine where we get it from.

        if ($row['is_array'] == TRUE) {

            if (isset($_FILES[$field])) {
                $this->_field_data[$field]['postdata'] = $this->_reduce_array($_FILES, $row['keys']);
            } else {
                $this->_field_data[$field]['postdata'] = $this->_reduce_array($_POST, $row['keys']);
            }
        } else {
            if (isset($_POST[$field]) AND $_POST[$field] != "") {
                $this->_field_data[$field]['postdata'] = $_POST[$field];
            } else if (isset($_FILES[$field]) AND $_FILES[$field] != "") {
                $this->_field_data[$field]['postdata'] = $_FILES[$field];
            }
        }

        $this->_execute($row, explode('|', $row['rules']), $this->_field_data[$field]['postdata']);
    }

    // Did we end up with any errors?
    $total_errors = count($this->_error_array);

    if ($total_errors > 0) {
        $this->_safe_form_data = TRUE;
    }

    // Now we need to re-set the POST data with the new, processed data
    $this->_reset_post_array();

    // No errors, validation passes!
    if ($total_errors == 0) {
        return TRUE;
    }

    // Validation fails
    return FALSE;
}