Re: Validate before controller

http://book.cakephp.org/view/410/Validating-Data-from-the-Controller

On Nov 25, 8:23 am, Razvan Pat <razvan....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've just started developing a website with CakePHP and already hit a
> bump. I don't understand why validation is done only when saving the
> data to the database. This is a very bad thing because:
> - you work with possible invalid data in the controller (let's say
> your making a website that calculates things and you want to put just
> the result of the operation in the database.. now you are forced to
> validate the input in the controller so that you don't get division by
> zero, that every input is a number and so on...)
> - you are going to do weird hacks for user registration. (hash the
> password field but keep the confirm password field intact for
> validation.. now validation errors would be displayed for the confirm
> password field instead of password. not something you want for a
> serious website)
>
> Now.. did I miss something and there is a way to move validation so
> that it runs before the controller? I don't even want the controller
> to run if there is a validation error...
>
> Razvan.
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