exactly, ryan thats too late if you want to validate all of em first before starting to insert them into the database
@cricket: yeah, that was a relict from the old method of mine - from back in the day when i didnt know about list()^^ On 27 Mrz., 03:26, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 26, 2011, at 18:40, euromark wrote: > > > I encountered this problem several times with some batch imports or > > multiple form boxes saved together. > > > You have a validation rule "isUnique" for the title. > > If you validate all your - lets say 15 - records, they are OK, even if > > two of them have the same name. > > Thats because the validation can only compare the 15 records to the > > current db content, not to each other. > > If the title is supposed to be unique, put a UNIQUE index on the title column > in the database. That will prevent duplicates from being inserted. Though it > won't necessarily help you get a user-friendly error message, if that's what > you're after. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
