Comments on: Validating Optional Fields in CakePHP – The dreaded OR scenario

By: CakePHP: Validate dependent field (select dropdown + input field) | Louie Miranda

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:44:11 +0000

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By: francky06l

francky06l — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:25:40 +0000

I have done a behaviors quite a while ago for this kind of “conditinalvalidation”. It’s on bakery and I am still using it ..maybe a small rewrite and your suggestion can combine the best .., The code is all yours

Cheers

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:25:16 +0000

@mscdex
Thanks for the feedback!
I know there is definite room for improvement here. I am working on an iteration that will only do the logic once, on the first call in a much cleaner fashion.

By: mscdex

mscdex — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:40:40 +0000

In validateDependentFields(), you should be able to at least remove the first conditions from the first two if statements.

Since $passed is true by default, $passed does not need to be explicitly set to true for these conditions, and so then you can essentially get rid of those conditions (but keep the ‘else’ clauses as simple ‘if’ statements).

I hope that makes sense.