A small update of the advanced validation approach
If you are using the advanced validation approach together with a CakePHP version higher than 1.0.1.2708, you have to add the following code block to the beginning of the invalidFields() function in your AppModel:
if(!$this->beforeValidate())
{
return false;
}
Without that update, your beforeValidate() callback functions are no longer called.
It’s better to add it after the $this->set($data); so that beforeValidate can access the data.
Hello, sorry to clutter up your blog with this, but I couldn’t find your email address.
I found a (possible) small bug in the validator. If my field name contains the string ‘password’, it doesn’t seem to validate it, or give an error message if incorrect. (using VALID_NOT_EMPTY). Was this intentional?
I change the field name in my database from hashed_password to hashed_pwd and it works fine. The verify_password field doesn’t work either, unless I rename it. Very odd.
Is this something I’m doing wrong or a bug? Any ideas?
@Brandon Pearce: You find my email address on the about page: http://cakebaker.wordpress.com/about/
Hm, that sounds strange. I think it is not a bug in the validation code, at least, I could not reproduce it here (with the trunk version of CakePHP). But I have no idea what could cause that problem…