Kohana orm validation - kohana

Question

I have fully working validation script my problem is that i can't get custom error messages
Here is my function for registration: http://pastebin.com/ZF3UVxUr
And here is my message array: http://pastebin.com/d9GUvM3N
my messages script is in: \application\messages\registration.php Any suggestions?
Sorry about long code just skip html and other stuff

Answer 1

If you're catching the validation exception that is thrown by the User model, then likely your messages file location is incorrect. It needs to be: 'registration/user.php'.
// ./application/messages/registration/user.php
return array(
'name' => array(
'not_empty' => 'Please enter your username.',
),
'password' => array(
'matches' => 'Passwords doesn\'t match',
'not_empty' => 'Please enter your password'
),
'email' => array(
'email' => 'Your email isn\'t valid',
'not_empty' => 'Please enter your email'
),
'about-me' => array(
'max_length' => 'You cann\'ot exceed 300 characters limit'
),
'_external' => array(
'username' => 'This username already exist'
)
);
Also, contrary to Michael P's response, you should store all validation logic in the model. Your controller code, to register a new user, should be as simple as:
try
{
$user->register($this->request->post());
Auth::instance()->login($this->request->post('username'), $this->request->post('password'));
}
catch(ORM_Validation_Exception $e)
{
$errors = $e->errors('registration');
}

Answer 2

You should be validating the post data before attempting to hit any models. Your validation rules are not being executed because you haven't performed a validation check().
I would do something like:
// ./application/classes/controller/user
class Controller_User extends Controller
{
public function action_register()
{
if (isset($_POST) AND Valid::not_empty($_POST)) {
$post = Validation::factory($_POST)
->rule('name', 'not_empty');
if ($post->check()) {
try {
echo 'Success';
/**
* Post is successfully validated, do ORM
* stuff here
*/
} catch (ORM_Validation_Exception $e) {
/**
* Do ORM validation exception stuff here
*/
}
} else {
/**
* $post->check() failed, show the errors
*/
$errors = $post->errors('registration');
print '<pre>';
print_r($errors);
print '</pre>';
}
}
}
}
Registration.php stays mostly the same, with the exception of fixing up the 'lenght' spelling mistake you had:
// ./application/messages/registration.php
return array(
'name' => array(
'not_empty' => 'Please enter your username.',
),
'password' => array(
'matches' => 'Passwords doesn\'t match',
'not_empty' => 'Please enter your password'
),
'email' => array(
'email' => 'Your email isn\'t valid',
'not_empty' => 'Please enter your email'
),
'about-me' => array(
'max_length' => 'You cann\'ot exceed 300 characters limit'
),
'_external' => array(
'username' => 'This username already exist'
)
);
Then, sending an empty 'name' field will return:
Array
(
[name] => Please enter your username.
)