Re: Required form field NOT marked with "required" CSS class

Add 'allowEmpty' = true for number.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan <jstein@image.dk> wrote:
>
> In a model, I have a validation like the following:
>
> var $validate = array(
>  'name' => array('notempty'),
>  'number' => array(
>    'notempty'=>array('rule'=>'notempty', 'message'=>'Number must be
> specified'),
>    'isUnique'=>array('rule'=>'isUnique', 'message'=>'Number is
> already used')
>  ));
>
> - and in a view:
>  echo $form->create();
>  echo $form->input('name');
>  echo $form->input('number');
>
> Then "name" gets a CSS class with "required", but "number" does not.
>
> However, if I add "'required'=>true" to "number" it does get the
> required class - but it breaks my validation, because in some cases, I
> want to update the data without supplying the "number" field.
>
> My solution so far is to add "$form->fieldset['validates'][] =
> 'number';" after "$form->create();", but I guess there should be a
> better way...
>
> I guess there is room for some confusion, because "required" in the
> form is not the same as "required" in the model validation!
>
>  Regards
>
>    Jonathan
>
> >
>

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