exactly for somebody that doesnt know this required is always the wrong way to go and in most other cases as well
see http://www.dereuromark.de/2010/09/21/saving-model-data-and-security/ On 27 Jun., 22:41, Jamie <jamie....@gmail.com> wrote: > Why would you tell him to use allowEmpty instead of required? They > perform two different functions. required = true won't let you save > the model without the key being present, while allowEmpty controls > whether you can save with the value of that field being empty or not. > > On Jun 26, 8:57 am, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > omit the required part (and its not an array anyway!) > > > use allowEmpty=>false instead > > > On 24 Jun., 21:45, Ciul <luiscarlosj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi CakePHP pals. > > > > I'm reading about CakePHP, I come from CodeIgniter and well, I've > > > liked a lot what I've seen until now. > > > > I am following examples for Model Data Validation through the > > > $validate var but I don't what I might be doing wrong but my model > > > doesn't validate anything, I mean, it throws error for every field, > > > even for date one and that's already put by CakePHP form helper so no > > > way it is not a validate date data. > > > > Here is the validate data I have in my User model. > > > > var $validate = array( > > > 'name' => array( > > > 'alphaNumeric' => array( > > > 'rule' => 'alphaNumeric', > > > 'required' => array(true), > > > 'message' => 'The title may > > > not contain any symbols' > > > ), > > > 'maxLength' => array( > > > 'rule' => > > > array('maxLength', 80), > > > 'message' => 'The title > > > must not exceed 80 characters' > > > ) > > > ), > > > 'date' => array( > > > 'rule' => 'date', > > > 'required' => array(true), > > > 'message' => 'You must > > > suply a valid date' > > > ), > > > 'content' => array( > > > 'required' => array(true) > > > ) > > > ); -- 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 cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
