I'm prepared to be corrected, but my understanding is that 'required => true' 
just means that the field must be present in the data array, and doesn't really 
test its value. So in your case, required => true might be enough.

Jeremy Burns
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On 25 Sep 2010, at 12:20, Mariano C. wrote:

> Reading the doc there's explained that require isn't a "pure" rule, so
> I'm asking how can I use it in multiple validation per field case:
> 
> example:
> var $validate = array
>       (
>               'id' => array(
>                       'idRule-1' => array(
>                          'rule' => 'isUnique',
>                          'message' => 'id is already registered.'
>                       ),
>                       'idRule-1' => array(
>                          'rule' => 
> '/^[a-z0-9]{3}-([a-z0-9]{5}-){3}[a-z0-9]{4}$/',
>                          'message' => 'Id field is not valid.'
>                       ),
> 
>               )
> )
> 
> How can I explain that ID field is required? where I can write this?
> 
> Second question: "allowEmpty => false" is stricter than "required =>
> true"? My interpretation about allowEmpty => false is: field will be
> required and empty is not allowed. Am I right? If this, I could use
> allowEmpty in place of required.
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