Hi, I've been doing some work with my users model and I got to a stage where I was creating a method to change a users password to avoid the default edit screen from having a populated password and such. Either way I ended up with a change_password method and view, this works great.
On this page I have two password fields which are checked using a custom match rule in my model btw. Then if they pass validation I copy one into the password field and save it. The validation is called using $this->User->validates() in the controller. But I was trying to validate the password and my model was throwing all kinds of strange errors. When I finally dropped in a die(pr($this->User- >invalidFields())); into my controller it was showing that all the other fields, which were marked as required were also being validated. I got around it by adding the fields as hidden to the form and submitting it. The main question is, is there a way to pass any field list into validates or create a validateFields() which takes an array of fields to validate? Is this possible? My colleague tells me that I should really be creating a passwords model and such and then relating it to my User but this seems a little overkill. In a similar circumstance which I just arrived at again, I am forwarding a job to a friend via email and I would like to validate the email field against the model before sending the email. Again I can't validate just this one field without validating the whole model. Yet again, should I be creating a ForwardtoFriend model with no table and it's own controller to do this and then associate it with the Vacancy? It seems to me that it might be a bit of a hacky shortcut to be able to specify which model fields you want to validate, but one that would be super handy, or am I missing the point here? (which is entirely possible ;p) Ta, Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
