Form Validation

Hi

My cake version is 1.3.7

I'm just learning form validation and am having a few issues.

Firstly, the manual is crap in that it doesn't tell you how to
implement the validation in your model, and it doesn't tell you how to
show the validation error messages in your view. Took a lot of
digging to find all that!

Anyway, on the the problem at hand. I thought I had this working on
one field, went to implement for the rest of my fields and now it is
always validating the form even when I have deliberately used inputs
that should fail validation. I have stripped it back down to one
field to try and get it working again

In my model: user.php

// VALIDATION
var $validate = array(
'first_name' => 'notEmpty'

);

In my controller:

function add(){

if($this->data){
if ($this->User->validates($this->data)) {
echo "does validate";

}
else { //data doesn't validate
echo "doesnt validate<br>";
$this->Session->setFlash('Please correct errors below.<br><br>');
}

}
}

Can anyone see an obvious error that I have overlooked?

BTW, the 'does validate' and 'doesn't validate' are just in there for
me to see easily where my problems are occuring. Obviously wouldnt be
there for production

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