The validation works fine 🙂
My problems appear because I have made a plugin settings page with ACF select boxes.
If the box isn’t checked then the required php file will not be loaded
In my plugin-name.php file I have
if( $hc_custom_options && in_array('Event', $hc_custom_options) ) {
require_once ('files/acf-event-fields.php');
};
The validation is on the files/acf-event-fields.php
Unchecking the select box fires the error
hope you understand my poor english … and my PHP skills 😉