Re: Validate from within a model

I can re-save and delete, so why i shouldn't be able to revalidate?

The error message is also in the "validationErrors" variable but while
the output of the form there is no error message.
But why?

On 27 Apr., 20:38, Miles J <mileswjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can't validates() something after the model save has already
> happened. Use a behavior for validation or use my plugin.
>
> https://github.com/milesj/cake-uploader
>
> And an example model on how to use it.
>
> https://github.com/milesj/cake-uploader/blob/master/tests/models/uplo...
>
> On Apr 27, 11:18 am, func0der <funco...@live.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
>
> > i'm having a file upload here.
> > I'm using "afterSave" to place the uploaded file in the filesystem.
>
> >         function afterSave($created){
> >                 //get the entry id
> >                 $this->data['DataFile']['id'] = $this->getInsertId();
> >                 if(!$this->saveDataFile($this->data)){
> >                         $this->delete($this->data['DataFile']['id']);
> >                         $this->data['DataFile']['data_file'] = array();
> >                         $this->validates();
> >                 }
> >         }
>
> > "saveDataFile" is a function which tries to places the uploaded file
> > in the file system and returns false in case of copy fails.
>
> > If the copy should fail i delete the record from the database and set
> > the "data_file" index which normally cotains the uploaded file
> > information to an empty array. This is because i want the validation
> > to fail so the file upload field gets an error message while
> > rendering.
>
> > The problem now is that the upload form does NOT! contain the
> > validation error message for that particular field.
>
> > Do you know what i am doing wrong?
>
> > Greetings
> > func0der

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