Just some thinking and a question or two, please tell me if I am
totally off base.
I would like to store multiple email addresses and phone numbers per
user. Using a serialized field might work for this. Is that a good
usage?
Next, how does one validate the data and properly save and find the
data. Here is what I am thinking (not tested).
Validate the Model using a custom validation function:
var $validate = array(
'emails' => array(
'is_email' => array(
'rule' => array('g_isEmail'),
'required' => TRUE,
'allowEmpty' => FALSE,
'message' => 'You must enter at least 1 valid email
address'
),
),
)
function g_isEmail($check){
if ( !isset($this->data['Model']['emails']) ){
return FALSE;
}
if ( is_array($this->data['Model']['emails']) ){
foreach( $this->data['Model']['emails'] as $email ){
if ( !Validate::email($email) )
return FALSE;
}
}
}elseif( !Validate::email($this->data['Model']['emails']) )
return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;
}
Then using beforeSave to serialize the field and afterFind to
unserialize the field.
Thanks,
Gary Dalton
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