CodeIgniter - Unable to access an error message corresponding to your field name Password.(pword_check)

Question

I am a new to codeIgniter and I just got stuck in the very beginning. I am using HMVC extention and while validating I am getting the following error:

Unable to access an error message corresponding to your field name Password.(pword_check)

any help would be greatly appreciated

Code:

public function submit()
{


    $this->load->library('form_validation');

    $this->form_validation->set_rules('username', 'Username', 'required|max_length[30]|xss_clean');
    $this->form_validation->set_rules('pword', 'Password', 'required|max_length[30]|callback_pword_check|xss_clean');

    if ($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE)
    {
        $this->login();
    }
    else
    {
        echo 'Success'; die();
    }
}

public function pword_check($str)
{

    if ($str == 'test')
    {
        $this->form_validation->set_message('pword_check', 'The %s field can not be the word "test"');
        return FALSE;
    }
    else
    {
        return TRUE;
    }
}

Answer 1

xss_clean is no longer part of form validation in Codeingitore 3

Just remove xss_clean from your validation roul

$this->form_validation->set_rules('pword', 'Password', 'required|max_length[30]|callback_pword_check');

If you really, really need to apply that rule, you should now also load the Security Helper, which contains xss_clean() as a regular function and therefore can be also used as a validation rule.

go to application/config/autoload.php :

$autoload['helper'] = array('security');

Or, before your form validation

$this->load->helper('security');