> Also Model::create() That won't work in this situation. Novice is referring to a case where a user leaves an input field blank, but it's still present, so any value you put in Model::create would be overwritten with the blank string sent in the form.
> beforeValidate() seems to be a nice place then because validation might > reject the values that i want to modify later on. Am i correct? If you only want to generate an automatic title when the user leaves it blank, and you're sure that any automatic title you generate will be valid, then it would be better to update the information in beforeSave() and set 'allowEmpty' to true in the validation rule for the title. It "feels wrong" to change the data in beforeValidate(), but that's just a personal opinion. On Feb 5, 10:46 am, "Dardo Sordi Bogado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also Model::create() > > On Feb 5, 2008 7:19 AM, Novice Programmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > beforeValidate() seems to be a nice place then because validation might > > reject the values that i want to modify later on. Am i correct? > > > Thanks. > > > On 2/5/08, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Not true actually. Generally speaking, any time you *can* put logic > > > in the model, you should. Don't move it out into the controller > > > unless it is necessary for some reason. > > > > On Feb 4, 11:14 pm, manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think, The best way to do this stuff is in the controller itself. > > > > > First you need to check whether the data is posted from the form. > > > > You can do so by doing something like: > > > > > if(!empty($this->data['ModelName']['id'])) > > > > > if it is so, you can check: > > > > > if(empty($this->data['ModelName']['title'])) > > > > $this->data['ModelName']['title'] = "Your_Custom_Title"; > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > > On Feb 5, 7:48 am, "Novice Programmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hello guys, > > > > > > I was wondering that what is the best place to change the data to be > > fed to > > > > > the model. Consider the following situation: > > > > > > I have a form which asks the user about the title of a content. if the > > user > > > > > has not given the title, i want to give some default value to the > > title(note > > > > > that this default value is dynamic and called be defined using default > > > > > directive in MySql). > > > > > > Now what is the best place to do this stuff? is it beforeValidate or > > > > > beforeSave or should i modify the data in the controller itself? > > > > > > -- > > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > > > > Novice (http://ishuonweb.wordpress.com/). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
