You could use the last parameter of select $showempty. if you set it
to "Select Genre", this will appear first and in your validation you
could use "VALID_NOTEMPTY"
On Jun 21, 2:12 am, mastorna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a select box using 1.2's formHelper and I cannot get it to pass
> validation. The view looks like this:
>
> echo $form->select('Mixtape.genre',
> array(
> "0" =>"Select Genre",
> "Classical"=>"Classical",
> "Country / Folk"=>"Country / Folk",
> "Latin"=>"Latin",
> "Rock / Pop"=>"Rock / Pop",
> "Soundtracks"=>"Soundtracks",
> "Spoken / Comedy"=>"Spoken / Comedy",
> "World Music"=>"World Music"),null,array('div' => true, 'label' =>
> false, 'class'=>'required', 'error' => 'Please specify a valid
> genre'),false);
>
> My model has the validation, which isn't seemingly detecting any
> errors.
>
> var $validate = array('genre' => array('rule' => array('comparison', '!
> =', 0)));
>
> I'm basically trying to force them not to select the first item in the
> select field ("Select Genre"). If they do select it, I want it to
> print out the error, but its not catching it. Any reason why? Am I
> going about my validation in 1.2 incorrectly for form->select(). I'm
> using the same technique for $form->input and it works great.
>
> -lm
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