Re: validation strangeness

I am not sure if it's the same problem i've got, but my issue was due
to not respecting naming convention. I missed model naming at plural.
Once I got everything to the single, it worked.

Hope it helped!

On Feb 4, 1:19 am, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> cake_1.2.6
>
> I'm thoroughly confused by what's happening (or not happening) with myvalidation. For one thing, save() does not appear to be calling
> validate(). Even when I pass true as the 2nd param,validationdoes
> not occur.
>
> Secondly, thevalidation, when called explicitly, seems to be wrong.
>
> User model:
>
> public $validate = array(
>         'name' => array (
>                 'username' => array(
>                         'rule' => array('minLength', '1'),
>                         'required' => true,
>                         'message' => 'Please choose a username'
>                 ),
>                 'unique' => array(
>                         'rule' => array('isUnique'),
>                         'on' => 'add',
>                         'required' => true,
>                         'message' => 'This username is already registered'
>                 )
>         ),
>         'email' => array (
>                 'email' => array(
>                         'rule' => 'email',
>                         'required' => true,
>                         'message' => 'A valid email address is required'
>                 ),
>                 'unique' => array(
>                         'rule' => array('isUnique'),
>                         'on' => 'add',
>                         'required' => true,
>                         'message' => 'This email address is already registered'
>                 )
>         ),
> );
>
> UsersController:
>
> if ($this->User->save($this->data, true))
> {
>     ....
>
> }
>
> The form inputs are a unique, valid name and a non-unique, valid email
> address.
>
> Cakeignoresvalidationand tries to save the data, leading to a DB
> error (because of a unique key). When called like this:
>
> if ($this->User->validates($this->data))
> {
>         if ($this->User->save($this->data, true))
>         {
>
> ... the save does not proceed. But FormHelper display the wrong
> messages:
>
> "Please choose a username"
> "A valid email address is required"
>
> I expect to see just one error msg: "This email address is already
> registered".
>
> So, first off, has Cake change something with save() recently? Looking
> at the source, I can plainly see where it calls validate(). Why do I
> need to explicitly call it?
>
> And why are the messages wrong?

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