Re: Phone Number Validation

You can try to use a virtual field: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1608/Virtual-fields

Or you can validate those fields before you save and errors are found,
use the session flash variable to show the error message.

On Nov 29, 9:18 am, "Dave Maharaj" <m...@davemaharaj.com> wrote:
> I am taking a single Model.phone and breaking the input up into 3 inputs
> (area_code) - (prefix) - (suffix) so my question is how do I validate that?
> I can merge the data to get my Model.phone and run standard validation on
> that but how to get the message on error back to the view since Model.phone
> is not on the page?
>
> My guess is validate each 3 if valid merge the data to get my Model.phone,
> but if any of the 3 are not valid (area_code) - (prefix) - (suffix) I only
> want 1 error message.
>
> I do not want individual error messages for the 3 inputs since everyone
> knows a phone number is NUMBER if they want to waste their time putting in
> letters and junk well then go ahead, I only want to return 1 error message
> for the full Model.phone (wrong length, not empty stuff like that
>
> Any ideas how to do this? Standard submit no js checking.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave

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