Strange Upload File Behavior

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi,

I cannot understand the behavior of validate() of Model with rule ‘file’

In model upload I wrote:


   class Upload extends CFormModel { 

    public $myfile;

    public function rules() {

        return array(

            array('myfile', 'file', 'types' => 'doc'),

        );

    }

In controller


 $model = new Upload();

 $uploaded =$model->validate();

 var_dump($uploaded);

 $this->render('index', array('model' => $model));

In view


echo CHtml::beginForm('','post',array('enctype'=>'multipart/form-data'));

echo CHtml::error($model, 'myfile');

echo CHtml::activeFileField($model, 'myfile');

echo CHtml::submitButton('my Upload');

echo CHtml::endForm();

The strange is the var_dump($uploaded) displays the normal situation although I havent put the code “$model->attributes = $_POST[‘Upload’];” to get the attributes model by $_POST!

How the validator knows the $_POST or $_FILES variables without setting the above?

Thanks