Required just indicates whether the field must be present when validating. So if it's empty, it's not there, and as it's not required the validation passes. Try setting 'allowEmpty' => false instead.
Jeremy Burns Class Outfit http://www.classoutfit.com On 9 Feb 2012, at 15:22:25, Benno wrote: > Hi all, > > I've searched the archives and open tickets, but perhaps I've missed > something obvious... > > I'm using Cake 2.0.5, and I've got a model with the following: > > public $validate = array( > 'notify_on_provision' => array( > 'rule' => 'email', > 'required' => false > ), > [various other rules that work fine] > ); > > If I submit a form generated in the corresponding view, the field > fails to validate with "This field cannot be left blank". The problem > under the hood appears to be that in Cake/Utility/Validation::email > the regex comparison fails (fair enough, the entry is blank), which in > turn sets $valid = false in Cake/Model::invalidFields, which causes > the error message. > > So... should I be doing something else to allow an email address to be > optional? Or should I file a bug? (If I change the rule to be > something like '/.*/' it works as expected, but then obviously I lose > the email syntax check.) > > Thanks! > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
