thanks grigri. seems to be working fine for me without 'allowEmpty'.
but the 'required' rule is still a mystery to me.
On Sep 19, 9:40 am, grigri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I ran into this too - you need to add the 'allowEmpty' attribute too:
>
> 'email' => array('rule'=>VALID_NOT_EMPTY, 'allowEmpty' => true)
>
> On Sep 18, 1:51 pm, Farez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong here (have searched docs,
> > sources and archives and can't find an answer).
>
> > The 'required' rule seems to be broken as it still reports an error
> > even when the field is not empty. The rule I have is:
>
> > 'email' => array('rule'=>'required')
>
> > I traced this to this part of the code in Model:invalidFields():
>
> > if (method_exists($this, $rule)) {
> > $ruleParams[] = array_diff_key($validator, $default);
> > $valid = call_user_func_array(array(&$this, $rule), $ruleParams);}
> > elseif (method_exists($Validation, $rule)) {
>
> > $valid = call_user_func_array(array(&$Validation, $rule),
> > $ruleParams);} elseif (!is_array($validator['rule'])) {
>
> > $valid = preg_match($rule, $data[$fieldName]);
>
> > }
>
> > where it always lands on the preg_match(...) line in the last
> > condition, where it tries to preg_match() $rule which has a value of
> > 'required', against the data field.
>
> > Anyway, I tried using a pattern instead of 'required' and it works,
> > like this:
>
> > 'email' => array('rule'=>VALID_NOT_EMPTY)
>
> > ... but I'm wondering if the 'required' rule is working in 1.2?
>
> > Cheers,
> > Farez
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