Hi guys, I'm working with sf1.1 since quite some time now and I have to say that the form system is really, really great. With some of the tutorials out there (e.g. thatsquality.com), I was able to digg deeply into its inner workings and get things done. But there is something I just can't figure out:
In short: I want a field to be validated only depending on the input in another field. Imagine a form, where a user can choose between two payment options: bank transfer and credit card (e.g. sfWidgetFormSelectRadio). This selection wil activate the validators for the relevant fields which are all required: Bank Transfer: bank name, account name, BIC/IBAN OR Credit Card: card organization, card number, expiry date On the view side, the relevant fields would be hidden and shown via JavaScript. But the widgets have to be there in the HTML, so they have to be created in the action. If there is no special form processing/ validation, submitting the form will always fail because some required fields would always be empty. Searching on google and asking in #symfony hinted me at using postValidator. But I couldn't figure out how to do it that way. There are several disadvantages with postValidator, as I think: - I can only access values in the current form, but would do you do if you have forms, embedded in forms? - I have to use the postValidator on the first widget (e.g. payment option) and add the validators of the dependant widgets (e.g. bank transfer or credit card). But what do you do, if you have several dependancies? I came up with my own solution to this problem, but I think it's the worst possible solution there is. I created my own form class extending sfForm, which has a method activateValidators(). All validators in this class are stored temporarily in an array (and not directly in $this->validatorSchema). In the action, in the process of creating the forms, I check for the dependencies and call activateValidators() if needed. The method activateValidators() will copy the validators from my temporary array to $this->validatorSchema, thus finally making the validators active. The problem here is, that I work on the parameters directly, without having them validated/cleaned yet, because I'm in the process of building the form. Altough I would wish to have them already validated or cleaned. Is there a better way to solve this? Is there a symfony way of doing this? Please help me out. Also I think this is a common thing and Symfony 1.1 really should support this. Regards, Axel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
