Should be: 'rule' => 'notEmpty'
Also I don't think you should have the 'allowEmpty'. Rick On Nov 23, 11:23 pm, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a select drop down for user to select a year. > > In before save I have: > > $this->data['Award']['year'] = $this->data['Award']['year']['year']; > since when I insepect the request the data looks like > > [year] => Array > ( > [year] => 2009 > ) > validation rule looks like: > > 'year' => array( > 'year-notempty' => array( > 'rule' => array('notempty'), > 'required' => true, > 'allowEmpty' => false, > 'message' => '* Please enter the year > you recieved this Award.', > 'last' => true) > ) > > But i get this error: > > <b>Warning</b> (2)</a>: preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, > array given [<b>CORE/cake/libs/validation.php</b>, line <b>848</b>] > > Any ideas where I am going wrong? -- 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.
