Hi,
I'm using Cake 1.3.6, and I have a login page and a register page
working with my application using the Auth component, but as I try to
create a 'change password' page I'm finding that my validation
messages aren't showing up on my change_password.ctp page. I am using
different field names for this page than I do on the login and
register pages, but at the moment I've copied the validation rules.
(I've also searched this group, and couldn't find this problem here
already.)
Here's what a slightly trimmed-down version of my change_password.ctp
view page looks like:
<?php
echo $session->flash();
echo $session->flash('auth');
?>
<?php echo $this->Form->create('User', array('name' =>
'ChangePasswordForm'));?>
<fieldset>
<legend><?php __('Account Information :: Change Password'); ?></
legend>
<?php
// don't allow username or password to be changed at this time
echo $this->Form->input('current_password', array('onfocus' =>
'this.select()'));
echo $this->Form->input('new_password1', array('onfocus' =>
'this.select()'));
echo $this->Form->input('new_password2', array('onfocus' =>
'this.select()'));
?>
<div class="submit">
<input type="submit" value="Save" />
<span class="form-text">or</span>
<a href="#" onclick="history.back(); return false;">back</a>
</div>
</fieldset>
<?php echo $this->Form->end(); ?>
I'm doing the wonky submit stuff there at the end because of something
else I was trying, and I haven't switched it back to the normal Cake
way of doing things. Other forms work with that, so I don't think it's
a problem.
My User model is pretty long right now, and I'm not sure you'll want
it all here, but these are the validation rules I'm using for these
fields:
'current_password' => array(
'ruleRequired' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'message' => 'Please enter your current Password',
'required' => false, # not always required in $this->data
)
),
'new_password1' => array(
'charsAllowed' => array(
'rule' => '/^[a-z0-...@#$%^&*()_+-=\[\]\\\|\{\},\.\?\/]
{6,}$/i',
'message' => 'Sorry, there\'s a character in the Password
I don\'t like'
),
'length' => array(
'rule' => array('between', 6, 20),
'message' => 'The Password must be between 6 and 20
characters'
),
'ruleRequired' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'message' => 'The Password field is required',
'required' => false, # not always required in $this->data
in all forms
),
),
'new_password2' => array(
'length' => array(
'rule' => array('between', 6, 20),
'message' => 'The Password must be between 6 and 20
characters'
),
'ruleRequired' => array(
'rule' => 'notEmpty',
'message' => 'The Password field is required',
'required' => false, # not always required in $this->data
in all forms
),
),
I actually have a function I use to test that the two new password
fields match, but I don't get validation messages with or without that
function, so I've removed it from the validation code shown above.
Here's what my change_password function in the UsersController class
looks like at the moment:
function change_password() {
# get the id from the session, don't trust a passed-in id
$id = $this->get_user_id();
if (!empty($this->data)) {
$this->data['User']['id'] = $id;
# make sure 'current_password' equals their current password in
the database
$user_curr_pwd_hash = $this->Auth->password($this->data['User']
['current_password']);
$curr_db_passwd = $this->User->get_curr_db_password($id);
# if these two passwords match, set 'password' in the form, and
try the save()
if ($user_curr_pwd_hash == $curr_db_passwd)
{
# hash one of the two matching passwords; set it to 'password'
so cake will try to save it
$this->data['User']['password'] = $this->Auth->password($this-
>data['User']['new_password1']);
# try the normal save() process
if ($this->User->save($this->data)) {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('Your account information has
been saved', true));
$this->redirect(array('controller' => 'users', 'action' =>
'view'));
} else {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('Sorry, a problem occurred
trying to save your account information. Please, try again.', true));
}
}
}
if (empty($this->data)) {
$this->data = $this->User->read(null, $id);
}
$this->set('user', $this->User->read(null, $id));
}
function get_user_id() {
$u = $this->Auth->user();
return $u['User']['id'];
}
I also have a before_filter method in the controller that looks like
this:
function beforeFilter()
{
// tell Auth to not ask for authentication when doing the
'register' action
$this->Auth->allow('register');
}
I was thinking the problem might be there, but I've tried different
ways of including a reference to the change_password function, but
that hasn't helped.
My 'users' database table doesn't include any of the fields on this
form. The fields I do have in my users database table are these:
create table users (
id int unsigned auto_increment not null primary key,
company_id int unsigned not null,
username varchar(50) not null unique,
password varchar(40) not null,
first_name varchar(32),
last_name varchar(32),
email_address varchar(128) not null unique,
last_login timestamp not null default now(),
foreign key (company_id) references companies(id) on delete
cascade
) ENGINE = InnoDB;
With this current setup, the following things happen when I try to use
the change_password.ctp form:
1) If I enter all the data right, I can change the old password
(current_password) to a new one.
2) If the data I enter fails a validation rule, the form is re-
displayed, and I see the "Sorry..." error message from the view's
"$session->flash();" code, but nothing else.
Any pointers on what I'm doing wrong, i.e., why I'm not seeing any
field-level validation messages on this form?
Thanks,
Al
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