Conditional validation - when not working

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

This is one of my validation rules for a model:
[‘my_field’, ‘required’, ‘when’ => function($model) {
return $model->status != 0;
}],
But the field is always required.
What am i doing wrong?
I tested with xdebug and the function does work, $model->status is 0.
I even changed the function to be a simple return TRUE; , but nothing

2

Can you show us all the rules of the model?
What comes to my mind is that you might have another rule that requires my_field.

3

I removed all other rules. Same result.

4

Well, that’s strange.
Are you sure that you are editing the rules of the model that is used in the form?

5

Yes, if i remove that rule everything works.

6

If you don’t want the field to be required you should try with false. Just guessing, is the value 0 or ‘0’?

7

Yes sorry, i meant return false

8

Client validation?
https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/2.0/yii-validators-validator#$whenClient-detail

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9

when does not afffect client validation, so you either have to specify whenClient or disable client validation for that field.

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10

That was it. Thanks