Smarty

[tclineks]

It would be helpful to be able to set pre-error and post-error markup as to apply styling to the errors.

the extra

[mohrt]

{validate ... assign="foo"}
{if $foo ne ""}blah{/if}

[tclineks]

Not clean enough! heh.
I just went ahead and added added this ..

line 436 of SmartyValidate.class.php inserted
[php:1:04743ffe9e] /**
* set pre and post error message markup
*
* @param string $pre the markup to apply before errors in this form
* @param string $post the markup to apply before errors in this form
* @param string $form the name of the form to apply pre and post error markup to
*/
function set_pre_post_markup($pre, $post, $form = 'default') {
$_SESSION['SmartyValidate'][$form]['pre'] = $pre;
$_SESSION['SmartyValidate'][$form]['post'] = $post;
}[/php:1:04743ffe9e]

replaced line 117 of function.validate.php
update: in SmartyValidate 2.5 the line is 122
[php:1:04743ffe9e] echo $_sess['pre'] . $_sess['validators'][$_validator_key]['message']. $_sess['post'];[/php:1:04743ffe9e]

so then i just need a
[php:1:04743ffe9e] SmartyValidate::set_pre_post_markup('<p class="error">','</p>');[/php:1:04743ffe9e]

[mohrt]

If that works for you that's fine, although the markup should be controlled from the template (imho)

You could use a modifier:

{$error|prepost:'<p class="error">':'</p>'}

[tclineks]

[mohrt]

another option:

{config_load file="errors.conf"}
{validate ... message=#msg1#}

errors.conf:

msg1 = <p class="error">ERROR</p>

or, building off the last idea with a modifier:

{set_prepost pre='<p class="error">' post='</p>'}
{validate ... message="my message"|prepost}

Then that could be applied to anything.