How to avoid validation ?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi,

I am testing Yii migrating some ASP.NET Forms.

I have created two image buttons at the end of the Insert/Update Form: "Cancel" and "OK".

Both work, but when I click "Cancel" Yii tries to validate the Form.

Is there any way to configure Yii to ignore validation ?

ASP.NEt has the following option:

CausesValidation="false"

Also, how do I create a URL using Yii functions, instead of hard-coding, to reference the image in the component below:

<%= echo CHtml::imageButton('http://localhost/php/exemployii/images/ok.gif',array('name'=>'btnOK')); %>

I have already an 'images' directory under "classes" theme but it did not work:

Yii::app()->theme->baseUrl . '/images/ok.gif'

Thanks

2

Cancelling a form would normally return the user to the previous page.

3

In Yii, you need to check if it is an OK or Cancel button. Based on this result, you determine whether to do validation. For example,



if(isset($_POST['ok'])) $model->validate();

About image path, yes, using Yii::app()->theme->baseUrl.'/images/ok.gif' should be fine.

4

Hi,

  1. I missed the theme configuration:

'theme'=>'classic'

Now it works !

  1. I have not found "validate()" but the following code, with "save()", works fine:

public function actionCreate()

{

  $model=new Cidade;

  if(isset($_POST['Cidade']))

  {

    if(isset($_POST['btnOK']))

    {

      $model->attributes=$_POST['Cidade'];

      if($model->save())

        $this->redirect(array('admin'));

    } 

    else

      $this->redirect(array('admin'));

  }

  $this->render('create',array('model'=>$model));

}

Thanks