i am new to cakephp and am trying to build an app in it. I have some textfields, i wish to have validation on them. I following cakephp tutorials in cakephp.org and did the following but i cant see the validation messages near the textfields. Following is my code:
ctp:
<?php echo $this->Form->text('Rideoffer.PickFrom',
array('class' => 'address-text',
'value' => $dropFrom)); ?>
model:
public $validate = array(
'PickFrom' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'message' => 'Cannot leave this field blank.'
),
//'PickFrom' => 'notEmpty',
'DropAt' => 'notEmpty',
// 'born' => 'date'
);
where am i getting wrong? how do i solve it?
You have used comma in dropat
public $validate = array(
'PickFrom' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'message' => 'Cannot leave this field blank.'
),
//'PickFrom' => 'notEmpty',
'DropAt' => 'notEmpty'
// 'born' => 'date'
);
You can use this
Form->text('Rideoffer.PickFrom',
array('class' => 'address-text',
'value' => $dropFrom,
'error'=>'Cannot leave this field blank.')); ?>
Related
I am loading a model in different controller.
Controller name in which I am loading different model is - "MembersController" and I am loading "Usermgmt" Model of "UsermgmtController".
"Usermgmt" Model has validation as following-
public $validate = array(
'email' => array(
'valid' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'required' => true,
'allowEmpty' => false,
'message' => 'Please enter a value for email.'
),
'duplicate' => array(
'rule' => 'isUnique',
'on' => 'create',
'message' => 'This email is already exist.'
),
'duplicate1' => array(
'rule' => 'email',
'message' => 'Please enter valid email.'
)
),
'firstname' => array(
'valid' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'required' => true,
'allowEmpty' => false,
'message' => 'Please enter a value for first name.'
)
),
'username' => array(
'valid' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'required' => true,
'allowEmpty' => false,
'message' => 'Please enter a value for user name.'
),
'duplicate' => array(
'rule' => 'isUnique',
'on' => 'create',
'message' => 'This user is already exist.'
)
),
'password' => array(
'valid' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'required' => true,
'allowEmpty' => false,
'message' => 'Please enter a value for password.'
)
),
'confirm_password' => array(
'valid' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'required' => true,
'allowEmpty' => false,
'message' => 'Please enter a value for confirm password.'
),
'duplicate2' => array(
'rule' => 'matchpassword',
'on' => 'create',
'message' => 'Password must be same.'
)
)
);
And now I am applying and loading model in following way.
$this->loadModel('Usermgmt');
$this->Usermgmt->set($this->data);
if ($this->Usermgmt->validates()) {
if ($this->Usermgmt->save($data, true)) {
$userid = $this->Usermgmt->id;
$this->Session->setFlash('User has been added', 'success');
}
}
But validation are not working and it is inserting empty values.
try uses to load model
Example :
public $uses = array('Usermgmt');
You are using two different instances of $data. namely $this->data and $data
You should be validating the same set of data you want to save, like either of the two following examples, whichever holds your data.
$this->loadModel('Usermgmt');
$this->Usermgmt->set($data);
if ($this->Usermgmt->validates()) {
if ($this->Usermgmt->save($data, true)) {
$userid = $this->Usermgmt->id;
$this->Session->setFlash('User has been added', 'success');
}
}
Or
$this->loadModel('Usermgmt');
$this->Usermgmt->set($this->data);
if ($this->Usermgmt->validates()) {
if ($this->Usermgmt->save($this->data, true)) {
$userid = $this->Usermgmt->id;
$this->Session->setFlash('User has been added', 'success');
}
}
Unless you are requiring to do some other logic after validation and before saving you could do away with explicitly calling validates() and just save the data as save() will automatically validate the data for you. Also, I've noticed you are using $this->data, it looks like you are using CakePHP 2 in which case you need to use $this->request->data instead:-
$this->loadModel('Usermgmt');
if ($this->Usermgmt->save($this->request->data) !== false) {
$this->Session->setFlash('User has been added', 'success');
}
If this still fails then make sure you are not overriding beforeValidate() in your model in a way that would cause validation to break.
Okay, so, in short, I'm trying to validate a form, as I've done a million times before with no trouble. However, I'm finding that on logging the validation errors, all the invalidated fields have an index in the validationErrors array but the messages are empty.
Yes, I've definitely set the validation messages in the model so I'm unsure why it's empty.
Here are my model validations:
public $validate = array(
'effective_policy_date' => array(
'date' => array(
'rule' => array('date'),
'message' => 'Invalid date format',
),
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'Policy date required',
),
),
'business_address' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'Business address required',
),
),
'city' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'City required',
),
),
'zip_code' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'Zip code required',
),
),
'state_id' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'State required',
),
),
'contact_person' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'Contact person required',
),
),
'phone' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'Phone number required',
),
),
'email' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'Email address required',
),
'email' => array(
'rule' => array('email'),
'message' => 'Invalid email format',
),
),
);
Here's the output of the validationErrors array after submitting the form with empty fields:
[AccountsRequest] => Array
(
[effective_policy_date] => Array
(
)
[policy_number_one] => Array
(
)
[policy_number_two] => Array
(
)
[policy_number_three] => Array
(
)
[policy_number_four] => Array
(
)
[business_address] => Array
(
)
[city] => Array
(
)
[zip_code] => Array
(
)
[state_id] => Array
(
)
)
For completeness sake, here's my Form->create array I use in the view and the controller action responsible for handling the form submission:
Form create() method
<?php
echo $this->Form->create(
'Request',
array(
'novalidate' => 'novalidate',
'action' => 'new_request',
'inputDefaults' => array(
'label' => false,
'div' => false,
'error' => array(
'attributes' => array(
'wrap' => 'label', 'class' => 'error'
)
)
)
)
);
?>
Controller action
public function new_request()
{
$this->page_id = 'requester_newform';
if($this->request->is('post'))
{
if($this->Request->saveAll($this->request->data, array('deep' => true, 'validate' => 'only')))
{
$this->Session->setFlash('Request saved successfully', 'flash/success');
}
else
{
$this->Session->setFlash('Could not save request. Please correct validation errors', 'flash/error');
}
}
}
You'll see some indeces in the validation array that aren't in the validationErrors, that's simply because I haven't quite finished converting the raw HTML to CakePHP forms.
Problem: The validationErrors array shouldn't be empty. It should contain the messages for the notEmpty rules and as a result there are empty error validation elements on the Form's frontend. Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?
Aarg, how annoying. I've figured it out and it's a lesson well learnt.
For anyone having a similar issue in the future, make sure that your input fields conform to the relationships of the current form's Model.
For instance, in this example, my form's model is 'Request'. Request hasMany 'AccountsRequest'. So my form inputs were something like:
AccountsRequest.effective_policy_date
where it should have been
AccountsRequest.0.effective_policy_date
With this change, my model validation messages are now showing without issue.
I'd still love to know, however, why CakePHP even picked up those fields as invalid and further, if it was intelligent enough to pick up those fields as invalid why it didn't give me validation messages.
Oh well.....
I prepare some registration form (the simplest) and in my Model i prepare some validation for email field:
'email' => array(
'mail' => array(
'rule' => array('email', true),
'required' => false,
'message' => 'Not correct e-mail!'),
'unique' => array(
'rule' => 'isUnique',
'message' => 'E-mail was registered!'))
But the rule isUnique doesn't work.
Addition i change in MySQL field email to unique, but still doesn't work.
I use CakePHP 2.3.7
Problem is when we use Translate behavior with model.
The query:
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(`User`.`id`)) AS count FROM `sometable`.`users` AS `User` INNER JOIN `sometable`.`i18n` AS `I18nModel` ON (`User`.`id` = `I18nModel`.`foreign_key` AND `I18nModel`.`model` = 'User' AND `I18nModel`.`locale` = 'pl') WHERE `User`.`email` = 'kicaj#kdev.pl'
Field email isn't translated.
Try this.
array(
'email' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'message' => 'Provide an email address'
),
'validEmailRule' => array(
'rule' => array('email'),
'message' => 'Invalid email address'
),
'uniqueEmailRule' => array(
'rule' => 'isUnique',
'message' => 'Email already registered'
)
)
);
I copied your code and pasted it in my Model and it just worked fine!!! I don't think there is any error in it. I just added semicolon after your code. Here is the code that I have checked:
'email' => array(
'mail' => array(
'rule' => array('email', true),
'required' => false,
'message' => 'Not correct e-mail!'),
'unique' => array(
'rule' => 'isUnique',
'message' => 'E-mail was registered!')),
I think there would be some other error!!
I have a model ex. posts that acts as translate and I want to validate the title which is a translated field.
How is this possible. The below does not work.
'title' => array(
'notempty' => array(
'rule' => array('notempty'),
),
));
Change rule name to camelCase: notEmpty and add message
you translate your message in /Locale default.po
'title' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'your translated message',
),
));
whats the big deal?
How validate file upload in CakePHP?
When i wrote some like this:var $validate = array(
'file' => array(
'select' => array(
'rule' => array('selectFile'),
'message' => 'There is no file!'),
'type' => array(
'rule' => array('typeFile'),
'message' => 'Bad type!'),
'size' => array(
'rule' => array('sizeFile'),
'message' => 'Bad with size!')));
Works only with the last validate, here 'size'.
Maybe You know solution, for validation for files with many messages?
try adding required=true to each of the 3 rules