Validation scenario...

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hello,

Has anyone managed to have different validation scenarios depending on one of the form fields?

For example, for a classified ads site, the ad can have 2 types : either "sell a car" or "search for a car"

from there, if the user is selling a car, horsepower and mileage need to be mandatory, whereas if the user has selected search, he doesn’t need to be so specific.

Do you think a better approach would be to have 1 form for each type or is there a way to do this in one single form?

Thanks a lot!

2

When I needed something like that, I used different forms.

But once I saw a similar question here in the forum and IIRC, someone managed to use only one. Maybe you can find it. Let me check the forum too if I can find that post.

3

Write a custom validation rule, using a function.

Take a look here for an example.

4

That’s a nice approach. I hope that it helps Benn :)

5

I’ll look into it and keep you posted! Thanks for your prompt answers :)

6

Hello!

Thanks for the tips, however, the problem is there are no * beside the fields that are only required when the first field (a dropdown in my case) has a given value…

Mentel : have you found the post you were refering to? :)

When you were using different forms, how did you deal with validation rules? They are specified at Model level.

Thanks!

Benn

7

No, I didn’t. Sorry for the delay.

I validated like this:




$valid = $model1->validate();

$valid = $model2->validate() && $valid;

if ($valid) {

	$model1->save(false);

	$model2->save(false);

}

You may want to use a transaction.