Validate Form Using Model Without Table In Cakephp 2

Validate Form Using Model Without Table In Cakephp (eg- Contact Us form )

Form Validation is an essential task in any online application, its also an incredibly dull, tedious and repetitive task but with CakePHP you can cut down the time and effort you spend validating your form data. In a standard PHP application you will normally display the form for user input, try to validate the data, if errors exist redisplay the form showing the errors whilst keeping the data that was already submitted and go through the process again until the data successfully validates.

Create a Model “User” and copy paste this code

<?php
App::uses(‘Model’, ‘Model’);
class User extends AppModel {
var $useTable = false;
var $_schema = array(
‘name’ =>array(‘type’=>‘string’, ‘length’=>100),
‘address’ =>array(‘type’=>‘string’, ‘length’=>255),
‘phone’ =>array(‘type’=>‘string’, ‘length’=>20),
‘subject’ =>array(‘type’=>‘string’, ‘length’=>255),
‘message’ =>array(‘type’=>‘text’)
);
var $validate = array(
‘name’ => array(
‘rule’ => ‘notEmpty’,
‘message’ => ‘required field’
),
‘address’ => array(
‘rule’ => ‘notEmpty’,
‘message’ => ‘required field’
),
‘phone’ => array(
‘rule’ => array(‘phone’, null, ‘us’),
‘message’ => ‘Please enter a valid phone eg. 5556668888’,
),
‘subject’ => array(
‘rule’ => ‘notEmpty’,
‘message’ => ‘required field’
),
‘message’ => array(
‘rule’ => ‘notEmpty’,
‘message’ => ‘required field’
),
);
}

For View

<?php
echo $this->Form->create(‘User’,array(‘novalidate’ => true));
echo $this->Form->input(‘name’);
echo $this->Form->input(‘address’);
echo $this->Form->input(‘phone’);
echo $this->Form->input(‘subject’);
echo $this->Form->input(‘message’);
echo $this->Form->end(‘Add’);?>

Action for Controller

public function index()
{
if(!emptyempty($this->data))
{
//pr($this->data);die;
if(isset($this->request->data[‘User’]))
{
$this->User->set($this->request->data[‘User’]);
}
if($this->User->validates())
{}
else {}
}
}

Now Run your code 🙂

Or Download View, model and action here

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