Oops, typo, it's
if(!isset($this->data['Bloodbank']['gender'])) { ...
Sorry ; )
On Jul 14, 6:10 pm, housebolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You'll want to put this tag before your $html->radio tag:
>
> <?php echo $html->hidden('Bloodbank/gender', array('value'=>'')); ?>
>
> <label>Gender:</label>
> <?php echo $html->radio('Bloodbank/gender',array('Male','Female')) ?>
> <?php echo $html->tagErrorMsg('Bloodbank/gender', 'gender is
> required') ?>
>
> The reason for this is that if a radio button is not selected, the
> value not posted, so you need to have a hidden input with an empty
> value in your view so that it will get posted. When the user selects
> the radio button, the radio button will override the hidden value. You
> can use VALID_NOT_EMPTY in your model's validate var, but also make
> sure in your controller that the value is set so that hacker's can't
> just delete the hidden input tag.
>
> if(isset($this->data['Bloodbank']['gender'])) {
> $this->invalidate('Bloodbank/gender');
> $this->render();
> exit;
>
> }
>
> // continue onward....
>
> Hope this helps. PHP and forms, especially in regard to checkboxes and
> radio buttons, can be very frustrating sometimes.
>
> On Jul 13, 10:26 pm, "salahuddin pasha (salahuddin66)"
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hello there,
>
> > I am trying to validate radio (where I did not set any default value)
>
> > <label>Gender:</label>
> > <?php echo $html->radio('Bloodbank/gender',array('Male','Female')) ?>
> > <?php echo $html->tagErrorMsg('Bloodbank/gender', 'gender is
> > required') ?>
>
> > in model
> > --------
> > var $validate = array(
> > 'gender' => VALID_NUMBER,
> > .....
> > )
>
> > i also tried with VALID_NOT_EMPTY
>
> > But is seems that I dont get tagErrorMsg, when none is selected.
>
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