Do I have any errors in my form?
A nice little trick to check if you have some errors in the view is to use the $session object. Try this (in the view): pr($this->validationErrors) or pr($session->validationErrors), be sure to...
View Article15 Essential CakePHP Tips
1. Save() does not work! Sometimes it happens that save() fails without any obvious reason. Your data array looks fine and you’ve build the form correctly, etc., etc., but no query was executed. It is...
View ArticleValidating a checkbox in CakePHP 1.2
In a few simple words: use the ‘comparison’ rule to validate a checkbox. To give you an example, let’s say a user needs to agree to the terms of service when registering a new account. In your User...
View ArticlenotEmpty validation rule
With the recent changeset (https://trac.cakephp.org/changeset/7399) a new, ‘notEmpty’, validation rule is now available. As you can guess, it checks to make sure that a field contains something other...
View ArticleSet::merge() and dynamic validation rules
Here’s another trick with Set::merge()… Let’s say we’ve defined some basic validation rules in our Profile model, something like: var $validate = array ( 'name' => array( 'rule' =>...
View Article'required'=>true… the source of major confusion
In all the time I’ve been following cake on IRC (almost daily), it has become very clear that other than ACL and maybe Auth, ‘required’=>true in the model validation is the most confusing part of...
View ArticleJQuery in the CakePHP world (part 2 – is client side code all that great?)
(part 1) Now, how is this an introduction to jQuery + CakePHP?… well, let’s see in a minute. First, I’d like to say that with the advent of frameworks such as jQuery, better browsers, which do a nicer...
View ArticleKey/value tables and how to use them in CakePHP 1.3
The key/value tables (EAV model) are a nice a approach to database modeling, when we need to store some arbitrary data about another model. For example, let’s take a User model. We could create a...
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