Well I either never tried to convert to a string or I mucked something up
(the latter of the two seems most likely) because it took the string with no
arguments, go figure. I expected as much.
Now here is a new question. Let's say (hypothetically) that I was so anal
retentive that I absolutely had to do the date conversion in the model
instead of the controller, I assume there must be an easy way?
I can get close with the following code, but sill no cigar.
[rule]
'date' => array(
'convertDate' => array(
'rule' => 'date',
'message' => 'Date is required',
'allowEmpty' => false
)
)
[/rule]
[function]
function convertDate($field)
{
$date =
$field['date']['year'].'-'.$field['date']['month'].'-'.$field['date']['day'];
return $date;
}
[/function]
I can get the converted date into the rule but it usually just displays it
as the 'message'. How do I validate the returned value of convertDate()
instead of field 'date' ?
- Ed
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Ed Propsner <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm relatively sure the first thing I did was to convert it over to a
> string but still ended up with the same error, I'll try it again though to
> be sure. Perhaps I'm just expecting too much from Cake? After all, Cake
> "automagically" structured the date as an array and it will accept and write
> it to the db as an array, I just assumed that it would convert it back or
> do some other "automagic" in the case of validation.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, John Andersen <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> As far as I can read from the api, then the validation expects a date
>> as a string, and you seems to pass it an array!
>> Please correct me if I am wrong :)
>> Enjoy,
>> John
>>
>> On Apr 27, 8:29 am, Ed Propsner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm having a few problems trying to validate a date and I'm not sure
>> what
>> > I'm doing wrong ...
>> >
>> > [date] => Array
>> > (
>> > [month] =>
>> > [day] =>
>> > [year] =>
>> > )
>> >
>> > I have the validation rule in the model set up close to the example
>> > in the book.
>> >
>> > 'dob' => array(
>> > 'rule' => 'date',
>> > 'message' => 'Some message here.',
>> > 'allowEmpty' => false
>> > )
>> >
>> > The book says if no keys are supplied the default key that will be
>> > used is 'ymd' ... that's fine.
>> >
>> > I'm not concerned about the format, I would just like to ensure the
>> > fields are not empty.
>> >
>> > When I submit the form it returns the following complaint:
>> >
>> > " preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given "
>> >
>> > What am I messing up this time ?
>> >
>> > - Ed
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