Validating Form That Isnt Saved To Database

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I may be missing something really simple here but here we go,

I have a form that is going to produce a report (data is not saved to database and model is CFormModel)

There are two separate elements on the form , a drop-down box that selects a customer, and a check-box that selects all customers

How could I perform validation on these so that one must be selected , but they both cant be at the same time ?

2

ok fine you can try


beforeValidate()

function and add validation rule using the following code


$this->validatorList->add(CValidator::createValidator())
3

Sorry i dont quite understand your answer, i was thinking that if it can be done in the rules function of the model somehow it would be easier




public function rules()

	{

		return array(

                    array('customer_ID, allCustomers', 'justone'),

                    array('daterange, report_ID, customer_ID, jobnumber, daterangestd, dateFrom, dateTo, allCustomers ', 'safe'),

		);

	}

        

        //validation function

        public function justone (){

            //something like if both have something in return error message stating this 


        }
4

Perhaps

beforeValidation ,beforeSave functions or any other involved are not returning true?

If you are calling ONLY parent (which is rare case)

You should have return parent::functionName();

or write your codes after

if(parent::functionName()){

//write codes and

//to save

return true;

}

5

fine try custom validation as following

in your rule add


array(

'dropdown',

'onlyOneValidator',

),

in your model add the following function


public function onlyOneValidator($attribute,$params){


if(!$this->isEmpty($this->dropdown) && !$this->isEmpty($this->checkbox))

$this->addErrors(array('only one must be selected'));




}

protected function isEmpty($value,$trim=false)

{

    return $value===null || $value===array() || $value==='' || $trim && is_scalar($value) && trim($value)==='';

}
6

I think this




if (!empty($params['customer_ID']) && !empty($params['allCustomers']))

should be




if (!empty($this->customer_ID) && !empty($this->allCustomers))

The params parameter is for passing extra information to the validator.

7

Thanks all for the help its working fine , one more question however , is there any reason this wouldn’t work with ajax ? all fields show green as I am stepping through the form , its only on submit I get the correct error

8

in this case you will need to create a custom class validator with both validateAttribute() function and clientValidateAttribute() function