Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Re: Why is the Validation Filters Array Processed Backwards and Returns Conservatively?

Thanks for the help guys, I'll make a few test cases on this behavior
later and see if it's as how grigri described.

On Sep 16, 4:51 pm, RichardAtHome <richardath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, cool - thanks for clearing that up :)
>
> On Sep 16, 8:18 am, grigri <j...@hendersonwebdesign.com> wrote:
>
> > > If that's true, how do you explain the behaviour I mentioned above?
> > > (unique message doesn't display, required message does)?
>
> > Because in your example, the validation rule is not handled in the
> > normal manner. Checking if a field is empty or not is not handled by
> > the 'allowEmpty' key, and works differently to the normal validation
> > flow (yeah, it's weird).
>
> > For example, with these rules:
>
> > var $validate = array(
> >   "name"=>array(
> >     "required"=>array(
> >       "rule"=>array("minLength, 1),
> >       "message"=>"is required",
> >       "required"=>true
> >     ),
> >     "need-a"=>array(
> >       "rule"=>"/a/",
> >       "message"=>"must contain an a"
> >     ),
> >     "need-b"=>array(
> >       "rule"=>"/b/",
> >       "message"=>"must contain a b"
> >     )
> >   )
> > );
>
> > If you give it "xyz", both the 'need-a' and 'need-b' rules will fail,
> > and the error message will first be set to "must contain an a" then
> > overwritten with "must contain a b". If, in the "need-a" rule you add
> > "last" => true, then the validation for that field will stop after
> > 'need-a' fails and the error message will remain "must contain an a".
>
> > hope this makes sense
> > grigri
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