Why isn't my CodeIgniter Form Validation working?

Question

I am trying to set up validation on a simple contact form that is created using the form helper. No validation at all occurs. What is wrong?

In the code below, the “good

Answer 1

It looks like you're not setting the validation rules according to the way the new Form_validation library does it (the user guide has a section on the new syntax). That seems to be the syntax for the old Validation library.

Try this instead for your $config_rules array and see if your validation runs properly:

$config_rules = array(
    array('field' => 'email', 'rules' => 'required'), 
    array('field' => 'message', 'rules' => 'required')
);

$this->form_validation->set_rules($config_rules);