data in the birthday field is entered manually and i need to save the last 4 characters from the 10 entered characters to the database, but i can not edit the record before saving. Please help!!
class SignupForm extends Model
{
public $username;
public $email;
public $password;
public $birthday;
/**
* @inheritdoc
*/
public function rules()
{
return [
['username', 'trim'],
['username', 'required'],
['username', 'unique', 'targetClass' => '\app\models\User', 'message' => 'This username has already been taken.'],
['username', 'string', 'min' => 2, 'max' => 255],
['email', 'trim'],
['email', 'required'],
['email', 'email'],
['email', 'string', 'max' => 255],
['email', 'unique', 'targetClass' => '\app\models\User', 'message' => 'This email address has already been taken.'],
// ['password', 'required'],
// ['password', 'string', 'min' => 3],
['birthday', 'required'],
['birthday', 'string', 'min' => 10, 'max' => 10]
];
}
/**
* Signs user up.
*
* @return User|null the saved model or null if saving fails
*/
public function signup()
{
if (!$this->validate()) {
return null;
}
$user = new User();
$user->username = $this->username;
$user->email = $this->email;
$user->setPassword($this->birthday);
$user->generateAuthKey();
return $user->save() ? $user : null;
}
public function beforeSave($insert)
{
if (parent::beforeSave($insert)) {
$this->birthday = substr('$birthday', 6,4);
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
}