How to create different rules depending on condition

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Hello…

I have a model class called "Usuario" that stores user information belonging to a database table with that name.

When I add a new user, I show a form to add the information. I have in that form 2 fields to allow specifying the password. Only in that case, password must be required.

When I am editing a user, password fields are not showm so that, these fields don’t have to be required.

I tried this:




public function rules()

	{

        $reglas = array(

    		    array('username, nombres, apellidos, email', 'required'),

    			array('username','length','max'=>50),

    			array('username', 'filter', 'filter'=>'strtolower'), 

    			array('email','length','max'=>80),

    			array('email','email'));

	    

	    if ($this->isNewRecord)

	    {

    	    $reglas = array_merge($reglas, array(

    		    array('password, password_repeat', 'required'),

    			array('password','length','max'=>50, 'min'=>6),

			    array('password_repeat','length','max'=>50, 'min'=>6),

			    array('password_repeat', 'compare', 'compareAttribute'=>'password')));

	    }

	    

	    return $reglas;

	}

But it didn’t work.

How can I do it?

Thanks

Jaime

2

You must use scenarios.

I have rewrote your code:




public function rules()

{

        return array(

                    array('username, nombres, apellidos, email', 'required'),

                    array('password, password_repeat', 'required', 'on' => 'insert'), //attention here!

                   );

}

Just this =)

You can read more about scenarios on the guide.

3

Further more when you then instantiate the class in your action like:




$form = new User;

You will need to define the scenario:




 $form = new User;

$form->scenario='scenarioYouDefine';

That’s how to apply the scenarios you make. So you could define multiple scenarios in your one model class and then depending on the action, call a different scenario when you instantiate the class.

:)

4

Thanks a lot! it worked perfectly :rolleyes: