Thanks for the reply, that makes sense.

I actually ended up going with a more robust image upload component
that has sorted the validation issues.

On Jul 28, 11:57 am, delocalizer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you setting your data to the model in the controller action before
> validating/saving?
> $this->Model->set($this->data);
> $this->Model->save();
> etc.
>
> On Jul 28, 12:27 am, number9 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm using a validates function in a model in order to validate image
> > uploads. I want to validate the filetype, and also make it required.
>
> > I know cake has built invalidationfor these, but I could never get
> > it to work. The image upload component I am using uses an array,
> > accessible via $this->data['Img']['pic'].
>
> > The problem I am having, is that the /add/ function works great, but
> > when I use the imagefield(Img.pic) on another function (/
> > edit_image/) thevalidationfunction isn't applied.
>
> > Here is the model code:
>
> >         function validates()
> >     {
>
> >                 $image = $this->data['Img']['pic']['name'];
> >                 // Grab the file extension:
> >                 $path = pathinfo($image);
> >                 $filetype = $path['extension'];
>
> >                 if(!empty($image)) {
>
> >                 if (($filetype != 'JPG') && ($filetype != 'jpg') && 
> > ($filetype !=
> > 'GIF') && ($filetype != 'gif') && ($filetype != 'JPEG') && ($filetype !
> > = 'jpeg'))
> >                         {
> >             $this->invalidate('Img.pic');
> >                         }
> >                 }
> >                 else {
> >                         $this->invalidate('Img.pic');
> >                 }
>
> >         $errors = $this->invalidFields();
> >         return count($errors) == 0;
> >     }
>
> > Is there something I have to include in the controller to make the
> > above happen automatically?
>
> > I would appreciate any guidance on this, I can include more code if
> > requested.
>
> > Thanks in advance.
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