Merge branch 'develop' into feature/session

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/form_validation.rst b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/form_validation.rst
index aae9e3b89..f964965ec 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/form_validation.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/form_validation.rst
@@ -326,14 +326,13 @@ In addition to the validation method like the ones we used above, you
 can also prep your data in various ways. For example, you can set up
 rules like this::
 
-	$this->form_validation->set_rules('username', 'Username', 'trim|required|min_length[5]|max_length[12]|xss_clean');
+	$this->form_validation->set_rules('username', 'Username', 'trim|required|min_length[5]|max_length[12]');
 	$this->form_validation->set_rules('password', 'Password', 'trim|required|md5');
 	$this->form_validation->set_rules('passconf', 'Password Confirmation', 'trim|required|matches[password]');
 	$this->form_validation->set_rules('email', 'Email', 'trim|required|valid_email');
 
-In the above example, we are "trimming" the fields, converting the
-password to MD5, and running the username through the `xss_clean()`
-method, which removes malicious data.
+In the above example, we are "trimming" the fields, checking for length
+where necessary and converting the password to MD5.
 
 **Any native PHP function that accepts one parameter can be used as a
 rule, like htmlspecialchars, trim, md5, etc.**
@@ -1002,7 +1001,6 @@ to use:
 ==================== ========= =======================================================================================================
 Name                 Parameter Description
 ==================== ========= =======================================================================================================
-**xss_clean**        No        Runs the data through the XSS filtering method, described in the :doc:`Security Class <security>` page.
 **prep_for_form**    No        Converts special characters so that HTML data can be shown in a form field without breaking it.
 **prep_url**         No        Adds "\http://" to URLs if missing.
 **strip_image_tags** No        Strips the HTML from image tags leaving the raw URL.