Thanks Matthew. That cleared things up and sorted my problem!
I was mostly wanting to use the fully qualified class name to avoid any
weird naming conflicts. Ie i wanted my own My_Validate_Regex but was worried
about the implications of ->addValidator('Regex', ...) when there is a
Zend_Validate_Regex as well. It seems My_Validate_Regex takes precedence
anyway.
The documentation here was confusing me.
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.form.elements.html#zend.form.elements.validators
Cheers
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> -- Dylan Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> (on Thursday, 28 February 2008, 05:19 PM +1300):
> > Can somebody please give me an example of using a custom validator with
> > Zend_Form?
> >
> > For the basic case using Zend_Validate_*:
> > $element = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('test');
> > $element->addValidator('Regex', ....);
> > //works fine.
> >
> > However:
> > $element->addValidator('Zend_Validate_Regex', ....);
> > //doesn't work. I get an exception Plugin by name Zend_Validate_Regex
> was not
> > found in the registry. What am I doing wrong?
>
> By default, the plugin loader looks for a class that has one of the
> registered prefixes. So, if you pass 'Regex' as the name, and
> 'Zend_Validate' is a registerd prefix, it finds it. However,
> there is no match to a fragment 'Zend_Validate_Regex' with an
> *additional* 'Zend_Validate' prefix.
>
> So, either use the short name ('Regex', in your example), or instantiate
> the validator:
>
> $element->addValidator(new Zend_Validate_Regex($pattern));
>
> > Now lets say I created a custom validator My_Validate_Test:
> > $element->addPrefixPath('My_Validate', 'My/Validate/',
> > Zend_Form_Element::VALIDATE);
> > $element->addValidator('Test', ....);
> > //This works
> >
> > However:
> > $element->addValidator('My_Validate_Test', ...);
> > //Doesn't work. (Exception Plugin by name My_Validate_Test was not found
> in the
> > registry.
> >
> > Where am I going wrong?
>
> Same problem as above. You now have the prefixes "Zend_Validate" and
> "My_Validate" on the stack, and it's prepending whatever you pass with
> those prefixes when doing the lookup.
>
> > Also. Does $form->addElementPrefixPath('My_Validate', 'My/Validate/',
> > Zend_Form_Element::VALIDATE); Add the path to all elements. I can only
> get the
> > path to work by setting it for each individual element.
>
> Should work on all elements... but only if they are created through your
> form object (i.e., via createElement() or addElement()). If you're
> instantiating your elements directly, you'd need to add the prefix path
> to all elements individually, as they would have no form awareness until
> added to the form.
>
> --
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> PHP Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Zend - The PHP Company | http://www.zend.com/
>
