Showing form errors beside form fields - php

Question

Still learning Phalcon through the tutorials but I have an issue with displaying form error messages beside form fields.
The form code is as follows
<?php
use Phalcon\Forms\Form;
use Phalcon\Forms\Element\Text;
use Phalcon\Forms\Element\TextArea;
use Phalcon\Validation;
use Phalcon\Validation\Validator\PresenceOf;
use Phalcon\Validation\Validator\Email;
class ContactForm extends Form
{
public function initialize()
{
// Name
$fullname = new Text('fullname');
$fullname->setFilters(array('striptags', 'string'));
$fullname->addValidators(array(
new PresenceOf(array(
'message' => 'Full Name is required'
))
));
$this->add($fullname);
// Email and text area fields with validators
/**
* Prints messages for a specific element
*/
public function messages($name)
{
if ($this->hasMessagesFor($name)) {
foreach ($this->getMessagesFor($name) as $message) {
$this->flash->error($message);
}
}
}
}
The form in using volt engine is below
{{ form('pages/contact') }}
<div class="controls controls-row">
{{ form.render('fullname') }}
{{ form.render('email') }}
<span class="help-inline error">{{ form.messages('fullname') }}</span>
<span class="help-inline error">{{ form.messages('email') }}</span>
</div>
<div class="controls">
<span class="help-inline error">{{ form.messages('comments') }}</span>
{{ form.render('comments') }}
</div>
<div class="controls">
{{ submit_button('Send It', 'class': 'btn btn-primary pull-right') }}
</div>
</form><!--end form-->
The code handling the form in the contactAction() is below
$form = new ContactForm();
if ($this->request->isPost() == true)
{
if ($form->isValid($_POST)==false)
{
$form->messages("fullname");
$form->messages("email");
$form->messages("comments");
}else
{
//send email
}
}
$this->view->form =$form
By calling the $form->messages("fullname") and for other fields the validation message will be printed using {{ flash.output() }} which is usually at the top of the page where I placed the code. How do I get the flash messages to display beside the form fields?
Please help. Thanks

Answer 1

After a lot of playing around, I simply changed the messages function in the ContactForm class to return message and not flash the message.
public function messages($name)
{
if ($this->hasMessagesFor($name)) {
foreach ($this->getMessagesFor($name) as $message) {
return '<font color="FF0000">'.$message.'</font>';
}
}
}
other parts of the code still remains the same.