actually thats not quite how it is supposed to be done you only need one validate_ajax method or whatever if you set up your rules according to the cookbook (and without using "required"=>true!!!) you are able to pass only the form vars necessary for the current validation - inside your single ajax action
it will then only validate those passed (like "username" for $this- >data[User][username]) all other validation rules are not touched! the rule "notEmpty" has nothing to do with this the rule itself is only triggered if the corresponding field exists - and as soon as this happens, the field is supposed to be "notEmpty" this is actually something that is NOWHERE in the documentation and therefore hard to understand for most beginners - there are lots of errors made here due to false assumptions.. and as for the "required" rule mentioned above: this means there is no way the validation will pass if this field is not present - especially without existing corresponding fields those rules will trigger errors and should not be used in most cases. Most certainly not if you plan to use such "partial" validation/insert/ edit stuff. as a matter of fact i have never found a single reason to use them... as they restrict your options more than beeing helpful On 20 Sep., 03:31, "young.steveo" <[email protected]> wrote: > First, a big "Thank You" to this group, it's helped me a lot by > reading posts here. > > I'm using ajax to pre-validate a form while the user types data into > the form's fields. So, if the user types a username that is too > short, or already in use, etc., they are notified by the script as > they type. You know the drill. ;) > > I'm using cakePHP's model validation to test if the data is valid. If > I include only one field in the $validate array, for exaple: > 'username', and then I put the following logic in my controller: > > $this->MyModel->set($this->data); > if ($this->MyModel->validates()) { > $this->render('validate', 'ajax'); > else { > $this->render('invalidate', 'ajax'); > > } > > everything works fine. However, if I include muliple fields in the > model's $validate array, like password, email, etc., then when I try > to validate only the username (the user has not typed anything into > the password or email field yet), it does not validate (presumably > because the logic I have written for validating a password states that > the password field cannot be empty), and the code renders the > invalidate.ctp. > > I'm seperating the controller actions into username_validate, > password_validate, etc. for the ajax calls, so how do I get cakephp to > only check if the username is valid, when password and email data is > not present? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
