For the most part, the methods of the Validation class can be accessed statically, i.e. to validate a date, you can just do Validation::date($date). There's also an optional $format parameter which defaults to 'ymd'.
On Feb 21, 2:09 pm, "Cynthia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a component which a bunch of controllers can use to always > do the same job: take some dates or date range information and return > some conditions. > > I thought it would be cute to have the component also check if those > entered dates are in the right format and are valid. But for the life > of me, I can't seem to get to the validation thing. > > I tried $uses, $helper, $component. Most of the time there is no > error ... but then maybe I don't know the "path" to get to it? > > $this->MyComponent->Validation->validate ... or > > $this->MyComponent->OriginalController->Validation.... > > For the moment I'll just C&P the date checking method ... but would be > nice to learn how to do this the right way :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
