Hi guys... it seems like every time I come on here, I'm posting about validation. Probably because, at least to me, it's one of the most confusing parts of the framework.
I'm trying to use the new methods of validation from the 1.2 code (current SVN version as of today), and I'm hitting brick walls probably because I'm trying to do something that makes no sense. The initial part of my application is basic user authentication. I have no issues with login and logout, I understand how to work with the Session component, and I've been playing with the Cookie component also to handle persistent logins. The confusing part is signups, and the problem comes down to the specific rules I want to apply. I need my usernames to be alphanumeric only (at least for the moment), but I also want them to be within a certain size range, and also to be unique (for obvious reasons). Previously I've used beforeValidate for this (although my attempt earlier on didn't get very far and gave me nearly 100 lines of code for the various conditions). There are similar conditions applied to the other 3 fields in my signup form - which are password, password_confirmation, and email. I can accept happily the difficulties of producing a validation system that does everything that everyone needs it to do - but some things would make life a lot easier. 1) Multiple validation rules for a single field 2) An equivalent to validates_uniqueness_of from Rails - effectively connecting to the database and seeing if the submitted value already exists in the table 3) A replacement for the old VALID_NOT_EMPTY - we now have a validation rule for seeing if a field is blank, but I can't figure out how you'd use that to make sure it's NOT blank. 4) Clarification on the comparison rule - should we be using this for strings (such as in my password/password_confirmation) or will it only work with numbers? The last feature I'd like to see is definable error messages for these validation rules, but I'm pretty sure that's something you guys are already working on. To clarify, I don't expect you guys to just jump and develop this functionality simply because I've asked for it - in fact some of these things I'm going to have a crack at developing myself before submitting as a patch - but I would like an idea of if/when these things are going to appear, if ever? Thanks :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
