I believe Matthew suggested throwing a digits filter on up front.
Perhaps I misunderstood and he was talking about the internal workings
of the validator itself such that
if ($value = Zend_Filter::get($value, 'Digits')) {
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Thomas Weidner<thomas.weid...@gmx.at> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Weidner<thomas.weid...@gmx.at>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jason,
>>>
>>> But when you have a german user then he will enter "1.000,50"
>>> Your server is configured to english and accepts only "1,000.50"
>>>
>>> So whatever your user enters, it does not validate because you expect
>>> always
>>> english regardless of what the user really does and where he lives.
>>>
>>> Your expectation of "native integer" does not work when you have a
>>> application which is accessed from users all around the world.
>>
>> Many times this expectation IS valid. One such case would be integer
>> database row identifiers. I guess I expected Zend_Validate_Int to
>> behave consistent with the PHP function filter_var($x,
>> FILTER_VALIDATE_INT). I don't want to add Zend_Filter_Digits
>> specifically because with the examples you gave above it the validator
>> would be run on the value '100050' which is quite different from
>> 1.000,50 or 1,000.50.
>>
>> I was definitely surprised when I upgraded to 1.8 that I suddenly had
>> to explicitly disable caching on Zend_Locale even though my projects
>> don't even use the locale directly. I thought the exception I was
>> getting was a problem with the cache that I was using in my own code,
>> until I stepped through the stack trace and saw that it originated in
>> Zend_Locale and not in my own class.
>
> The computional/english notation and the notation without dots is always
> accepted regardless of the locale where you are or which you request.
> But this has nothing to do with the cache problem.
>
> And I never said that a filter has to be applied to validate a input.
> Why would a string like 1.000,50 result to 100050 ?
> There is nothing in the validator which erases separation and fraction at
> the same time.
> I am quite confused to what you've stated here.
> A validator does not return a value, only true or false.
>
> Greetings
> Thomas Weidner, I18N Team Leader, Zend Framework
> http://www.thomasweidner.com
>
