@Jeremy: *It's just that I've never had to do any date manipulation or conversion to get it to validate*
That was my point exactly ... I don't mind converting at all but I honestly really didn't think I would have to. It would only make sense that if Cake "automagically" sets the date into an array, accepts the array when writing to the db, and provides a validation rule for date ... why would it not validate the date as an array? Anyhow, if i don't convert it it complains that param 2 of preg_match needs to be a string and I would normally agree unless running the array through a foreach which I was under the assumption Cake would do in the case of an array. Since I've been playing around with it I've come up with a few ways to convert it over in the model, some more straightforward than others. - Ed On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Jeremy Burns <[email protected]> wrote: > As an aside, is the date being sent in via the form helper using the date > input? It's just that I've never had to do any date manipulation or > conversion to get it to validate. > > Jeremy Burns > [email protected] <[email protected]> > > > On 27 Apr 2010, at 23:29, Ed Propsner wrote: > > Well I either never tried to convert to a string or I mucked something up > (the latter of the two seems most likely) because it took the string with no > arguments, go figure. I expected as much. > > Now here is a new question. Let's say (hypothetically) that I was so anal > retentive that I absolutely had to do the date conversion in the model > instead of the controller, I assume there must be an easy way? > > I can get close with the following code, but sill no cigar. > > [rule] > 'date' => array( > 'convertDate' => array( > 'rule' => 'date', > 'message' => 'Date is required', > 'allowEmpty' => false > ) > ) > [/rule] > > [function] > function convertDate($field) > { > $date = > $field['date']['year'].'-'.$field['date']['month'].'-'.$field['date']['day']; > return $date; > } > [/function] > > I can get the converted date into the rule but it usually just displays it > as the 'message'. How do I validate the returned value of convertDate() > instead of field 'date' ? > > - Ed > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Ed Propsner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm relatively sure the first thing I did was to convert it over to a >> string but still ended up with the same error, I'll try it again though to >> be sure. Perhaps I'm just expecting too much from Cake? After all, Cake >> "automagically" structured the date as an array and it will accept and write >> it to the db as an array, I just assumed that it would convert it back or >> do some other "automagic" in the case of validation. >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, John Andersen >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> As far as I can read from the api, then the validation expects a date >>> as a string, and you seems to pass it an array! >>> Please correct me if I am wrong :) >>> Enjoy, >>> John >>> >>> On Apr 27, 8:29 am, Ed Propsner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I'm having a few problems trying to validate a date and I'm not sure >>> what >>> > I'm doing wrong ... >>> > >>> > [date] => Array >>> > ( >>> > [month] => >>> > [day] => >>> > [year] => >>> > ) >>> > >>> > I have the validation rule in the model set up close to the example >>> > in the book. >>> > >>> > 'dob' => array( >>> > 'rule' => 'date', >>> > 'message' => 'Some message here.', >>> > 'allowEmpty' => false >>> > ) >>> > >>> > The book says if no keys are supplied the default key that will be >>> > used is 'ymd' ... that's fine. >>> > >>> > I'm not concerned about the format, I would just like to ensure the >>> > fields are not empty. >>> > >>> > When I submit the form it returns the following complaint: >>> > >>> > " preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given " >>> > >>> > What am I messing up this time ? >>> > >>> > - Ed >>> > >>> > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://cakeqs.organd help >>> others with their CakePHP related questions. >>> > >>> > 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]<cake-php%[email protected]>For >>> > more options, visit this group athttp:// >>> groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en >>> >>> Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help >>> others with their CakePHP related questions. >>> >>> 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]<cake-php%[email protected]>For >>> more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en >>> >> >> > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others > with their CakePHP related questions. > > 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 > > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > 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]<cake-php%[email protected]>For > more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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