Can you tell us more about why you need warnings? The simplest
alternative might be a completely alternate approach.
-- John
On Jan 25, 2008, at 8:19 AM, grigri wrote:
>
> I am using 1.2 (have been for a while), and I'm very impressed by its
> validation system. But I can't see how I can do what I need without
> more code. I'll try and explain.
>
> The basic system of "warnings" could be implemented by having a
> beforeValidate() method (in a Behavior or Model) which enumerates the
> $validate array [*], checks for entries with a specific option (such
> as 'warning' => true), then cross-checks that against a different key
> in the data (corresponding to the 'ignore warning' checkbox), and if
> present, temporarily removes it from the validation array (setting
> 'on' to any value other that 'create', 'update' or null would
> accomplish this).
>
> [ * The orderings of validation and warning entries would be crucial
> for this to work properly, because an error must always override a
> warning. ]
>
> At this point, it can flag the field as failing, but when the form
> helper outputs the error message, I need it to output an extra
> checkbox dynamically with a specific name and value. Although I could
> code this directly in the beforeValidate() [a bit messy, but still
> possible], the FormHelper::input() method, when calling
> FormHelper::error(), ALWAYS escapes the HTML, so I'd be rendering HTML
> code not real working HTML.
>
> I could of course code the "error message" in a specific way (like
> "{{{WARNINGDATA:encoded_data_here}}}") then do a preg_replace_callback
> in a helper afterRender() method, but it's quite a messy way of doing
> things, with a possible performance hit. Plus I'd have to add the
> helper in the controller; which should really be agnostic to this
> information.
>
> I'm wondering if I'm making this more complicated than it needs to be.
> Based on what I've explained I'd like to achieve, can you see a
> different (possibly simpler) way of doing it?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Jan 25, 2:20 pm, "John David Anderson (_psychic_)"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Jan 25, 2008, at 6:38 AM, grigri wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I'd like to hear some suggestions on cakeifying an existing system.
>>
>>> Cake's validation is wonderful, but it only allows "yes this is
>>> good"
>>> and "no it isn't". I've got an application I need to port that has
>>> automated warnings built in for some fields.
>>
>> Have you checked out validation in 1.2? Multiple rules, pre build
>> validators, easy custom rules.. I think you can easily do what you
>> need in 1.2.
>>
>> -- John
>>
>>> Although my system is quite specific (it's a historic family tree,
>>> so
>>> most of the warnings are like "Warning: this marriage is between two
>>> cousins / brother and sister, are you sure?), I could see a generic
>>> application, for example for URLs (warning: this URL returns a 404,
>>> are you sure you want to add it?) or passwords (this is a crappy
>>> password choice, use it at your own risk...).
>>
>>> My old system gave each warning generated a session-level id and
>>> presented an appropriate checkbox in the field 'error' position. The
>>> validation routine checked if the checkbox was checked for each
>>> registered warning and ignored it if appropriate. If there were no
>>> errors, and no unchecked warnings, the form went through.
>>
>>> My old system was not very flexible, a mish-mash of php includes and
>>> whatnot, and I need to cakeify it.
>>
>>> So, any suggestions on how to introduce this functionality to cake,
>>> without rewriting the form helper or model validations? I've got a
>>> few
>>> ideas but I'd like to hear input.
>>
>>> (Once I've got a solid "normal" foundation for it, I'd like to
>>> extend
>>> to js/ajax too, but this is definitely for later)
> >
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