Re: is it possible to include the failed input string in the validation message?

Bit of a moot point for me... was using Username as an example, but its actually not a username, so the only validation rule I have on the field is isUnique...

also not using localization...
having said that, would be nice if the model validation rules supported returning the input string in the message....

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:19 AM, john lyles <confidential99@gmail.com> wrote:

>> But wouldn't this error message be displayed when *any* validation error with the username field occurs? What if I also have validation checks for whether it's >>empty, whether it's too short, whether it includes invalid characters? Anyway, wouldn't I want to specify validation errors in the controller, not in the view?

Ryan, good point about the error message being displayed for any
error. I hadn't thought that far ahead. The solution would be to
specify the keyname of the validation rule. The example in the manual
not fixed for this situation is: $this->Form->input('Model.field',
array('error' => array('tooShort' => __('This is not long enough',
true) )));

As for the second point about handling this in the controller. It's
the manual itself that says this should be handled with FormHelper.
From this page here: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1143/Data-Validation
, it says: "For more information about how to handle the displaying of
validation errors, check out the section covering FormHelper."

On Dec 29, 4:40 pm, Ryan Schmidt <google-2...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2010, at 11:24, john lyles wrote:
>
> > If your form looked something like this you would get the result you
> > are looking for:
> > echo $this->Form->input('username', array('error' => $this->data['User']['username'] . ' is taken'));
>
> And of course if you wanted that to be localizable:
>
> echo $this->Form->input('username', array('error' => sprintf(__('%s is taken', true), $this->data['User']['username'])));
>
> But wouldn't this error message be displayed when *any* validation error with the username field occurs? What if I also have validation checks for whether it's empty, whether it's too short, whether it includes invalid characters? Anyway, wouldn't I want to specify validation errors in the controller, not in the view?

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