I've certainly considered the option of submitting to the same action and on success redirecting. My problem is that the page the user modifies data on also serves as an "index page" for certain functions: Skipping the post, activating the post and deleting the post. As I want to build out entirely different actions in the controller to handle each of those functions, when the user submits the data in the form, I need to process the data through an external action.
That being said, does that mean that what I'm trying to accomplish cannot work? I would think that it should be possible, and in certain circumstances necessary to people outside of just me. All help is appreciated. Thanks! On Dec 6, 10:26 am, Smelly_Eddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why are you using two actions to begin with? > > It seems like your inviting issues using such a manner. > > Have you considered sending all the data to the same action, and on > successful validation redirect to the next action? Seems like a > cleaner way to go about things. > > On Dec 6, 1:20 am, Renesistemic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've had no luck locating any resource online for resolving my issue > > (which I feel is fairly easy), and thought I'd post it on here to see > > if anyone has input. > > > I'm trying to use the built-in data validation for submitting a form. > > The originating action, say, "manage_posts", displays the form to the > > user and lets them modify data for that post. When they submit, it > > sends the data to "activate_post". > > > In the "activate_post" action, I call the if($this->Datavalue->set > > ($this->data) && $this->Datavalue->validates) function to test the > > data, and if that test fails I redirect back to "manage_posts"... > > > The actual validation process seems to be functioning. It accepts > > valid data and redirects on invalid data. However, when it redirects > > to the previous action, it doesn't actually display the error message > > for that HTML element > > > In the original form, I am in fact calling $this->Form->error > > ($datavalue, $error_msg) after generating the HTML element with $this- > > > >Form->input(). > > > Likewise, I have other actions throughout my application that use data > > validation and work correctly. However, they don't redirect to another > > action on failing validation. An example would be an action to > > "add_posts"... When the user submits data, it submits to itself, > > tests, and upon validation renders the same action/view. > > > It seems that I'm only experiencing these problems when I redirect on > > the failure of a data validation. Any thoughts? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
