Smarty

[tangfucius]

I have two forms on one page, and I registered both forms and their validators separately by the form names. However when I validate one form, and there is invalid data from that form. The validator error messages show up for all of the validators on the page, not just the validators associated with the form I did SmartyValidate:is_valid on. How can I fix this?

[mohrt]

I'm not sure that is supported since all the validators are getting tested on the page redraw. Try using one form id for all of them, and setting separate "page" values for the separate validators. Then set the appropriate page value for the form you are validating. The other validators should get ignored.

[tangfucius]

Thank you for the reply!

I tried your suggestion, no error messages show, but SmartyValidate::is_valid returns false even if the data is valid.
Also when the data is invalid, none of the validator error messages would show.
Is there anything else special I need to do to use the page tag?

[mohrt]

You shouldn't have to do much. Make sure each {validator} in the template has the appropriate page value assigned to it, then set the page value on the PHP side before using is_valid(). Maybe you can post a minimal test-case that shows the problem.

[tangfucius]

here goes the code

[mohrt]

You might be having a problem with disconnect(). Don't call disconnect() until ALL validation is complete. You don't really have to call disconnect() at all, it is only for session data cleanup. When you call disconnect(), you lose all validation states for both forms.

so do something like:

1) register ALL your validators in PHP

2) make sure each {validate} statement has the appropriate page value in the template

3) during the validation cycle, set the appropriate set_page() value before calling is_valid on the PHP side (looks like you already do that.)

4) when everything is complete/valid, you can call disconnect()

[tangfucius]

I did exactly what you suggested, but with no luck.

I looked into the source code of SmartyValidate.class.php,
and change line 450 from (inside of the set_page) function

$_SESSION['SmartyValidate'][$form]['is_init'] = true;

to

$_SESSION['SmartyValidate'][$form]['is_init'] = false;

(however from my understanding, this will break the functionality for multi-page forms)

and now it validates the first form asscoiated with page 1,
however when i try to post the second form that's associated with page 2,
it validates if data is valid, however when the data is invalid, all the validators for form1/page 1 still get shown, just like the initial problem I had with multiple forms on the same page in the initial post.

The problem is not within the SmartyValidate class, it's the function.validate.php that does not take care of the multi-page form concept on the same page, because it does it by form but not page.
So each {validate} tag on that page will get processed and echo out errors if valid is not set.

[mohrt]

Yeah it doesn't sound like trying to validate two separate forms on the same page is working too well.

You could probably register form 1, then after it is validated, destroy that form registration and then register form 2, and validate that one. I don't know if that is the behavior you are after though. Maybe put your forms on two separate pages

[Tomserv]

I added this line