How To Detect If A Validation Failed

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I have a form field for image upload. A validation rule for it is defined as follows:


array('imagefile', 'file', 'types' => 'jpg, gif, png', 'maxSize' => 1024 * 50, 'allowEmpty' => true),

It works ok in a sense that if I try to upload too big file, it shows error message. Yet, the preview form tries to show the image from interrupted upload. Here is the code from preview:


<?php if(!empty($model->imagefile) && !$model->hasErrors('imagefile')) { ?>

<img src="<?php echo CController::createUrl('product/thumb').'/'.$model->category_id.'/'.$model->id; ?>" alt="<?php echo $model->name; ?>" />

<?php } ?>

As you may see, I check if imagefile attribute hasErrors, but it seems not reporting any error because I see an empty rendered image placeholder.

What’s wrong and how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

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In your validation rule, set ‘allowEmpty’ to false.

Edit:

‘allowEmpty’ is set to true so, if the user does not upload a file, there’ll be no error. If you don’t want to force users to upload a file, leave the ‘allowEmpty’ as false and remove the !$model->hasErrors(‘imagefile’).