Comments on: Writing custom validation rules http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2008/05/04/writing-custom-validation-rules/ baking cakes with CakePHP Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:26:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cakebaker http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2008/05/04/writing-custom-validation-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-88635 cakebaker Wed, 14 May 2008 16:54:25 +0000 http://cakebaker.42dh.com/?p=600#comment-88635 @John: You could use the <a href="http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/conditinalvalidation-behavior" rel="nofollow">ConditionalValidation behavior</a> for this purpose. Or you could do the validation manually in the beforeValidate() method of your model. Hope that help! @John: You could use the ConditionalValidation behavior for this purpose. Or you could do the validation manually in the beforeValidate() method of your model.

Hope that help!

]]> By: JohnP http://cakebaker.42dh.com/2008/05/04/writing-custom-validation-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-88489 JohnP Tue, 13 May 2008 22:15:13 +0000 http://cakebaker.42dh.com/?p=600#comment-88489 How would you write a custom validation that looks at more than one value in the model? For example if your model has the following: User role email And you wanted to write a validation to ensure (for example) users with the role of "ACADEMIC" had an email address that ended in ".edu". As far as I can tell, the custom validations only pass in the field being tested. How would you write a custom validation that looks at more than one value in the model? For example if your model has the following:
User
role
email

And you wanted to write a validation to ensure (for example) users with the role of “ACADEMIC” had an email address that ended in “.edu”. As far as I can tell, the custom validations only pass in the field being tested.

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