Re: validation criteria at least 3 fileds are not empty

Good to see that you are trying to solve this :)

I would still have gone with rolling my own validation, just by extending the validator, so it can validate a record also, not only fields.

Anyway, I am not moving to CakePHP 3.x, so will not be able to give further ideas on that, but I do hope you find a solution in the end.

Enjoy, John

On Thursday, 23 October 2014 12:12:11 UTC+3, Radharadhya Dasa wrote:

I checked to cookbook and find out that validation handles singe fields. So I used beforeSave for this.

public function beforeSave(Event $event, Entity $entity, ArrayObject $options){
    if((!empty($entity->name) + !empty($entity->contactname) + !empty($entity->zip_id)
          + !empty($entity->address) + !empty($entity->phone) + !empty($entity->email)
          + !empty($entity->birth->time)) >= 3){
        return true;
    }
    else{
        //Error: __('At least 3 info should be filled');
        return false;
    }
}

But I have a problem and a question.

The above gives me this error message:

Warning (4096): Argument 1 passed to App\Model\Table\ContactsTable::beforeSave() must be an instance of App\Model\Table\Event, instance of Cake\Event\Event given, called in /home/rrd/public_html/sanga/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Event/EventManager.php on line 266 and defined [APP/Model/Table/ContactsTable.php, line 85]

What is the proper way to do it?

The question is how to define an error message what will be flashed to the user?

2014. október 18., szombat 15:41:28 UTC+2 időpontban John Andersen a következőt írta:

Assuming you are still using CakePHP 3.0

I have not seen any built-in rules for this kind of validation, so my best guess is to roll your own.
See section "Custom Validation Rules" under "Validation" in the CakePHP 3.0 book. That should help you on the way.

Enjoy, John

On Saturday, 18 October 2014 16:21:57 UTC+3, Radharadhya Dasa wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to check if at least 3 fileds are not empty? I have 8 fileds and any of those could be empty, but at least 3 of them should be not empty. Is there any build in validation rule, or how to do it? Should I do it on beforeSave?

rrd

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