Comments on: Zend_Filter_Input / Zend_Validate Messages

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:40:58 +0000

Oh I should have mentoned in the last post, you can still use define messages for Zend_Validate_Alnum::STRING_EMPTY in the validators array you send Zend_Filter_Input, it just means a lot of extra lines on complex forms until they fix the bug.

$validators = array(
    'month' => array(
        'Alnum',        
        array('Between', array(1, 12)),
            'messages' => array(            
                array( Zend_Validate_Alnum::STRING_EMPTY => "A month value is required", 
                    Zend_Validate_Alnum::NOT_ALNUM => "Month must only consist of numbers or letters" ),            
                'Month must be between 1 and 12'        
            )
        )
    )
);

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:38:57 +0000

Theres a bug in Zend_Input_Fitler at the moment, it kind of drove me nuts for a few hours.

Validators with stringEmpty validation messages cannot have those messages overwritten by the ones you define in options.

So even if you define a custom 'notEmptyMessage' in the options, the alnum validator will still send back its default notEmpty message.

See http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-1912

By: Rob...

Rob... — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:08:29 +0000

Cheers Steve!

Regards,

Rob...

By: steve goodman

steve goodman — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:38:19 +0000

I'm not sure if this is mentioned in the official docs, but if you aren't interested in the particular type of validation error thrown by a validator in a Zend_Input_Filter chain, you don't have to assign your custom message to a constant. Rather, you can just assign a single message to the validator. For instance, the two messages for Zend_Validate_Between are pretty similar, and you might not want to have to assign a message to both constants. In this case, the following code would allow you to specify a custom message for both errors NOT_BETWEEN and NOT_BETWEEN_STRICT: $validators = array( 'salary' => array( array('Between', 10000, 20000), 'messages' => array( 'Salary must be between $10,000 and $20,000')));