Required attribute not working

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Controller Action

public function actionChangepassword($id)
 {      
        
        $this->layout = 'formlayout';
        
        $model = new Users;
        
        $model = $this->findModel($id);
        $model->scenario = 'changepassword';
        
        if (Yii::$app->request->isAjax  && $model->load(Yii::$app->request->post())) {
          \Yii::$app->response->format = \yii\web\Response::FORMAT_JSON;
          return ActiveForm::validate($model);
        }               
            
        return $this->render('changepassword', [
            'model' => $this->findModel($id),
        ]);

 }

View

<?php use yii\helpers\Html;
use yii\widgets\ActiveForm;
use common\models\Users;

/* @var $this yii\web\View */
/* @var $model common\models\Users */
/* @var $form yii\widgets\ActiveForm */
$baseUrl = Yii::$app->request->baseurl;
$baseUrl = str_replace('/admin', '', $baseUrl);


$form = ActiveForm::begin(['enableAjaxValidation'=>true,'validateOnSubmit' => true,'options' => ['enctype'=>'text/hmtl'],'action'=>['/users/changepassword?id='.$model->id]]   );
?>
<div class='row'>
        <div class="col-md-6">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="box box-primary">
            <div class="box-header">
              <div class="box-title">
                Change password Information
              </div>
            </div>
            <div class="box-body">
                <div class="box-body">
                 <div class="form-group">
                      <?= $form->field($model, 'oldpwd')->passwordInput(['maxlength' => true,'placeholder'=>'Enter Old Password', 'value' => '']);?>
                  </div>
                 <div class="form-group">
                <?= $form->field($model, 'password')->passwordInput(['maxlength' => true,'placeholder'=>'Enter New  Password', 'value' => '']);?>
              </div>
              <div class="form-group">
                <?= $form->field($model, 'confirm')->passwordInput(['maxlength' => true,'placeholder'=>'Confirm  Password', 'value' => '']) ?>
              </div>
              <div class="box-footer">
            <?= Html::submitButton($model->isNewRecord ? 'Submit' : 'Change Password', ['id'=>'userSubmitBtn','class' => $model->isNewRecord ? 'btn btn-success' : 'btn btn-primary']) ?>
            <a class="btn btn-danger" href="index">Cancel</a>
          </div>
        </div><!-- box-body ends -->
      </div><!-- box-info ends -->
    </div><!-- col-md-6 ends -->
  <?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>
</div>

Model:

<?php
  
namespace common\models;

use Yii;
use yii\base\NotSupportedException;
use yii\behaviors\TimestampBehavior;
use yii\db\ActiveRecord;
use yii\web\IdentityInterface;
use common\models\Users;
use common\models\Groups;
use common\models\Testdata;
use yii\db\Expression;
use yii\behaviors\BlameableBehavior;

/**
 * This is the model class for table "xbox_user".
 *
 * @property integer $id
 * @property string $firstname
 * @property string $lastname
 * @property string $username
 * @property string $email
 * @property string $password
 * @property string $confirm
 * @property string $oldpwd
 * @property string $role
 * @property string $manage
 * @property string $group_user
 * @property integer $org_id
 * @property integer $created
 *
 */
 class Users extends \yii\db\ActiveRecord implements IdentityInterface
{
    public $confirm;
    public $oldpwd; 
     
     public static function tableName()
    {
        return 'user';
    }
    
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            [['confirm','password','oldpwd'],'required','on' => 'changepassword',skipOnEmpty => false]]
              ];
    }
}

The required validation works for confirm, password. but it doesnt work for oldpwd

any suggestions on what the issue could be?

2

this is weird I setup a new project just to reproduce it, it seems to work as expected for me, perhaps try declaring it as a separate rule

3

This will reset every field of the model to the current version in the db table every time you render the view except for ajax validation.

The controller action should be something like the following:

public function actionChangepassword($id)
{
    $this->layout = 'formlayout';
    $model = $this->findModel($id);
    $model->scenario = 'changepassword';
        
    if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post()) {
        if (Yii::$app->request->isAjax) {
            \Yii::$app->response->format = \yii\web\Response::FORMAT_JSON;
            return ActiveForm::validate($model);
        } else {
            if ($model->save()) {
                return $this->redirect(['somewhere']);
            }
        }
    }
    return $this->render('changepassword', [
        'model' => $model,
    ]);
 }