Codeigniter with Summernote - Validation Issue

Question

I'm using Summernote with Codeigniter and loving it so far. But I do have one issue, I'm trying to make the text area required. But, even when you do not enter anything in the text field it still passes because Summernote automatically adds the following:

<p><br></p>

How do I get rid of this? I just need the required validation to work!

Thanks!

Answer 1

Make sure you put this before the form_validation->run() statement

if($this->input->post("textfield")=="<p><br></p>"){
    $this->input->post("textfield")="";
}