Codeigniter return validation error from helper

Question

I'm making a URL validation helper which I set as a rule in my form validation.

$this->form_validation->set_rules('link_url', 'Link URL', 'trim|required|xss_clean|max_length[255]|validate_url');

If the validate_url returns FALSE how can I return a custom validation error from the helper?

Helper

if ( ! function_exists('validate_url'))
{
    function validate_url($str)
    {
       $pattern = "/^(http|https):\/\/([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*(?:\.[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)+):?(\d+)?\/?/i";
        if (!preg_match($pattern, $str))
        {
            $this->form_validation->set_message('validate_url', 'URL is not valid');
            return FALSE;
        }
        else 
        {
            return TRUE;
        }
    }
}

When I submit the form I get

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context

Aman · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-10 04:44:12Z

4

As @alex mentioned you are trying to call an object within a function, any way you can avoid this error by using get_instance() which returns super object. I am not sure if you can use this helper function as callback inside form_validation lib though.

here is the code:

if ( ! function_exists('validate_url'))
{
    function validate_url($str)
    {
        $ci = get_instance();

       $pattern = "/^(http|https):\/\/([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*(?:\.[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)+):?(\d+)?\/?/i";
        if (!preg_match($pattern, $str))
        {
            $ci->form_validation->set_message('validate_url', 'URL is not valid');
            return FALSE;
        }
        else 
        {
            return TRUE;
        }
    }
}

answered Jun 10, 2011 at 4:44

Aman

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alex · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-10 01:17:42Z

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You are creating a global function, not a method of an object.

In that context, $this doesn't point to any instantiated object. To set messages on an object, you'd need to change $this to the validation object.

You could be able to replace the body of that function with return (bool) parse_url($str).

answered Jun 10, 2011 at 1:17

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