Hello everyone, let me quickly explain my situation and what i'm trying to achieve.
I have a User model with 5 fields having validation rules, out of these 5, 3 are required ( required => true, and they also have the notEmpty rule ) I would like to pre-validate each field, one by one, from the controller and give a JSON response. The reason for this, as you have probably already guessed, is that i'm validating dynamically, as the user fills in the form, before the actual submission. ( it's hooked to onblur on the input fields ) It should look something like this: - user changes away from the input field ( onblur ) - javascript takes the name & value of the field, does POST to my pre_validate action - the pre_validate action validates this single field and outputs the validation result in JSON - the javascript updates the form with validation error messages if required ( All this would be very handy ( and elegant ) when validating a field for isUnique, for example. But it also provides a single point of access to validation rules for scripts wanting to validate form data pre-submission ) Removing "required" from any of my 3 mandatory fields is not an option, since i don't want to end up with forged posts passing validation without these fields. ( ie a user account with no password.. nasty ) I have done some research here and on the web and found the following possible solutions: a, i remove the required flag from my required fields and check for them beforeSave. Nasty, breaks actual validation, not really what i'm looking for. b, i do "->validates()" with only one field "->set()" on the model, and filter the validation results. Running through all fields when i expect to have only a single field's data does not seem to be an elegant solution either. c, save the validation rules array for the single field i'm validating for and re-build User->validate with this single field for the validation-call. This seems to be the most promising way but i still consider this hacking. Here comes the question - Is this implemented on the Model? Is there a way i can execute validation rules for a single field ONLY? If it isn't ( i believe it isn't ) how would you get around this? thanks & regards, Andrew ps: i'm on 1.3 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
