Merge pull request #5286 from zploskey/issue_5202

Fix Error "Cannot create references to/from string offsets"

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/system/libraries/Form_validation.php b/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
index c1cfcdb8f..0dfb274b2 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
@@ -591,6 +591,8 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 				}
 				else
 				{
+					$data_ref =& $data;
+
 					// before we assign values, make a reference to the right POST key
 					if (count($row['keys']) === 1)
 					{
diff --git a/tests/codeigniter/libraries/Form_validation_test.php b/tests/codeigniter/libraries/Form_validation_test.php
index ebb14983e..b70f950a2 100644
--- a/tests/codeigniter/libraries/Form_validation_test.php
+++ b/tests/codeigniter/libraries/Form_validation_test.php
@@ -482,6 +482,20 @@ class Form_validation_test extends CI_TestCase {
 		$this->assertEquals('bar2', $this->form_validation->set_value('bar[]', $default));
 	}
 
+	public function test_issue_5202()
+	{
+		$data = array('person' => array('firstname' => 'Dick', 'lastname' => 'Tracy '));
+		$this->form_validation->reset_validation();
+		$this->form_validation->set_rules('person[firstname]', 'First Name', 'required|trim');
+		$this->form_validation->set_rules('person[lastname]', 'Last Name', 'required|trim');
+		$this->form_validation->set_data($data);
+		$valid = $this->form_validation->run('', $data);
+
+		$this->assertEquals(TRUE, $valid);
+		$this->assertEquals('Dick', $data['person']['firstname']);
+		$this->assertEquals('Tracy', $data['person']['lastname']);
+	}
+
 	public function test_set_select()
 	{
 		// Test 1: No options selected