Hello!
i’m quite new to Yii… so this can be quite a stupid question.
I have a user moel that saves on my db sha1 versions of passwords. i’d like my users to be able to set a new password when updating their user profile… how could i prevent the password field to be already completed on the update form?
thanks a lot
joey
in actionUpdate after $model= new User;
add $model->password=’’;
thanks for the suggestion!! 
i thought not to display the password field in the update form and i’d like to create a new action for the model: newpassword.
So, in UsersController i added an action:
public function actionNewpassword()
{
$model=$this->loadModel();
// Uncomment the following line if AJAX validation is needed
// $this->performAjaxValidation($model);
if(isset($_POST['BoUsers']))
{
if($model->password == sha1($_POST['BoUsers']['password']));
$model->attributes=$_POST['BoUsers'];
$model->password = sha1($model->password);
if($model->save())
$this->redirect(array('view','id'=>$model->idBOUsers));
}
$this->render('newpassword',array(
'model'=>$model,
));
}
i thought that $this->render would have called the file newpassword.php in views folder… but i got an error 404… what’s the matter?
thanks!
It should… if the model is BoUsers than the view files should be in /protected/views/boUsers
but I tryed to request a nonexistent view and
I’m getting error 500 UserController cannot find the requested view “updatexy”, and you got the 404 - don’t know why
thanks!!
i got it!
i was calling the link without passing an id to it… now it goes!
mhm… i’m still having problems…
i added a field newpassword to the BoUsers class, then my _formpass.php looks like this:
<div class="row">
<?php echo $form->labelEx($model,'password'); ?>
<?php echo $form->passwordField(BoUsers::model(),'password',array('size'=>50,'maxlength'=>50)); ?>
<?php echo $form->error($model,'password'); ?>
</div>
<div class="row">
<?php echo $form->labelEx($model,'newpassword'); ?>
<?php echo $form->passwordField(BoUsers::model(),'newpassword',array('size'=>50,'maxlength'=>50)); ?>
<?php echo $form->error($model,'newpassword'); ?>
</div>
and my actionNewpassword is:
public function actionNewpassword()
{
$model=$this->loadModel();
// Uncomment the following line if AJAX validation is needed
// $this->performAjaxValidation($model);
if(isset($_POST['BoUsers']))
{
if($model->validatePassword(sha1($_POST['BoUsers']['password']))){
$model->attributes=$_POST['BoUsers'];
echo $_POST['BoUsers']['newpassword'];
$model->password = sha1($model->newpassword);
if($model->save())
$this->redirect(array('view','id'=>$model->idBOUsers));
}
else $model->addError('password','The password provided is incorrect!');
}
$this->render('newpassword',array(
'model'=>$model,
));
}
. i also added a rule in the model:
array('newpassword','required','on'=>'newpassword', 'message'=>'hey, guy... set a password!'),
expecting my newpassword field to be required in the form, but it’s not. Does anyone know why?
… nothing works at the moment 
try to remove ‘on’=>‘newpassword’, this is for scenario not for action…
but this way the newpassword field is required also on creation form…
Should i build a new scenario, then? i’ll try that
Didn’t use that yet… try to set scenario… ‘on’=>‘update’
wow, it works!!
thanks a lot!
d’oh!!
this way it asks me for a value for newpassword in the update action too… i think i should try setting up a newpassword scenario. i’ll try that out. thanks a lot!
it works with scenario…
here’s the code!
the function actionNewpassword sets the scenario:
public function actionNewpassword()
{
$model=$this->loadModel();
$model->setScenario("newpwd");
// Uncomment the following line if AJAX validation is needed
//$this->performAjaxValidation($model);
if(isset($_POST['BoUsers']))
{
if($model->validatePassword(sha1($_POST['BoUsers']['password']))){
$model->attributes=$_POST['BoUsers'];
$model->newpassword=$_POST['BoUsers']['newpassword'];
if($model->validate()){
$model->password = sha1($model->newpassword);
}
if($model->save()){
$this->redirect(array('view','id'=>$model->idBOUsers));
}
}
else $model->addError('password','The password provided is incorrect!');
}
$this->render('newpassword',array(
'model'=>$model,
));
}
and this is the rule:
array('newpassword','required','on'=>'newpwd', 'message'=>'you must set a new password!'),