CakePHP Questions

I got frustrated with long complicated validation rules in my models, and the limited functionality of Bake's validation generation, so I made my own tool. If I get enough support I will clean it up, make it pretty, and probably get it its own...

I don't know if any of you have already noticed this, but when we're baking a model in the Cake Bake console, there is a subtle differences for default validations between fields named "name" and "title":

name : the default selected validation...

I was reading the Cookbook tonight and I noticed that there are comparisons for the "required" flag and "notEmpty" rule, and the "allowEmpty" flag and the "required" flag...

But no comparison for the "allowEmpty" flag and "notEmpty" rule.

So the...

While following some of the beginner tutorials, and playing around with CakePHP, I noticed that on the CRUD pages generated from the Cake console, the Create page would list many fields as bold, and many as normal text. A Google search told me,...

I can get the form validation errors to work with a form that validates against 1 model.

But now I have a mixed form and validate against multiple models.

The field specific errors don't show anymore, but luckily I can catch the field erros using...

Hi guys,

I know that if I use $form-input(), the validation errors will be shown automatically. This is really neato, but at this moment, I need a different behavior. I want those validation errors shown like a validation summary on top of the...

My case is: Order HABTM Product. In joining table orders_products I've extra field - quantity.

Now, when editing Order I can add Products and enter quantitiy. Here is what I've done already:

In model Order:

public $hasAndBelongsToMany =...

I have a standard form setup which includes a $form-select select box.

My validation rules are setup so that the select box mustn't be empty.

If I leave the select box empty and try to submit the form it wont because the validation rule is stopping...

How do i pass validation message from model to controller?

I'm using a custom function to perform validation of a date. Inside that function I have about 4 different things I'm validating on.

Is it possible to get a custom message displayed based on where it fails validation in that function.

I tried...

Hi all,

I have been reading posts on the confusion over "required" flag and I think I understand it pretty well.

However I am having problem trying to make it work.

For example, here is my...

Hi,

Anyone know how to display Variable in Error Messages during Data Validation?

for example, for the code below in MODEL

var $validate = array(
    'login' => array(
        'rule' => 'alphaNumeric',
        'message' => 'Usernames must only...

Hey folks,

I'm really new to CakePHP, and I must say I love it.

But now I got my first problem, and I can't find a solution at the moment.

I've got a little sytem set up, with admin routes, acl, auth and so on.

Now I want that if somebody wants to...

I am trying to validate that a certain title is not already used by another child of the parent that i am trying to add a new child to.

So i will need to get the parent_id from the form and then use it in the custom validation rule.

But it seems...

important: the following problem don't occurs when i try to edit the field for the first time. it only appears, when other validation rules come into action and stop the validation/edit-end.

Hello,

i have a field "inventory_number". This field is...

Hello,

is there any ready-made rule to validate MAC addresses?

Greetings.

I have been scratching my head on how to do this for a few days now. Lets say the user enters a date in a form and submits it.. the date is 10/2/10 for example. The database is setup to have a 'checkin' and 'checkout' date fields already...

Hello,

when i add a new data-row, in some times i have to enter a foreign-key-id. How can i check, that this entered value is valid (= is known in the linked table with the primary key)?

Can i check it with the core validation rules? The...

Solution:

Hello,

my table rooms contains three fields: id, building_id and room.

Building_id and room have to be UNIQUE together, because room 9 is in building 1 only one time but room 9 can also conained in building 2.

The...

Have created a form but the only 2 fields that are appearing with the class 'required' added to the div are the ones that are used for my Auth component. Other fields I have look like this but when rendered, <div class="input text" is being...