Thx José for the explanation.
But how do I test if the validation has failed ?
Something like this is not really nice...
function afterValidate($options) {
if (!empty($this->validationErrors)) {
return false;
}
}
any better idea ?
TIA,
Charles
On 26.05.14 10:16, José Lorenzo wrote:
> It is just the way it works. There are equal amount of reasons for
> wanting the callback to be run after the validation has failed, can
> you not change the logic to check if there are any validation errors
> and not run the rest of the method?
>
> On Monday, May 26, 2014 10:06:50 AM UTC+2, cbueche wrote:
>
> Dear Bakers,
>
> I have an app under CakePHP 2.5.1. I'm not sure to understand how
> the callback succession is supposed to work, eg if the validation
> fails, there is IMHO no reason to run afterValidate() ? But it
> does run indeed.
>
> What I'm trying to do:
>
> my form has 7 entry fields. The ones I have issues with are
> start_time, end_time and duration. The user might enter a
> combination of them, eg
>
> - start & end
> - start & duration
> - duration & end
> - only duration
>
> (at the end, I only care about durations)
>
> My strategy for saving the data is
>
> - have a validation for the fields, eg to get the right time
> format (HH:MM) or duration, but with 'required' => false and
> 'allowEmpty' => true
> - in afterValidate(), I verify that the new entered start and end
> do not overlap with existing records
> - in beforeSave(), I verify the combination entered by the user,
> the goal being to calculate a duration
>
> My problem is that even if the user enters a wrong format for a
> field, Cake still run afterValidate(), causing problems in my
> queries, before I can return "false" to abort the save.
>
> Now I'm not really sure why cake runs afterValidate() if
> validation fails. Is there something I missed ?
>
> TIA for your assistance,
> Charles
>
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