Smarty

[[ArcanE]]

Hi

I've got a nasty problem where i can't get {if $validate.default.is_error}DO SOMETHING{/if} to work

Here is my PHP code:
[php:1:6d0208f1bc]// Smarty validation of forms
// http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/SmartyValidate/
if(empty($_POST)) {
SmartyValidate::connect($tpl, true); // new form, we (re)set the session data
SmartyValidate::register_validator('val_bedrijf', 'bedrijf', 'notEmpty', false, false, 'trim');
SmartyValidate::register_validator('val_voornaam', 'voornaam', 'notEmpty', false, false, 'trim');
} else {
// validate after a POST
SmartyValidate::connect($tpl);
if(SmartyValidate::is_valid($_POST)) {
// no errors, done with SmartyValidate
SmartyValidate::disconnect();
} else {
// error, redraw the form
$tpl->assign($_POST);
}
}

// DISPLAY =================================================================================
$tpl->display('_layout.tpl');
[/php:1:6d0208f1bc]

Any my template

[php:1:6d0208f1bc]{if $validate.default.is_error}
<div class="error">
<h3>Error with submitting form</h3>
</div>
{/if}


<form action="" method="post" class="profielform">

<fieldset>
<legend>Persoonsgegevens</legend>
<label for="bedrijf">Bedrijf</label>
<input type="text" id="bedrijf" name="bedrijf" />
{validate id="val_bedrijf" field="bedrijf" message="Bedrijf moet ingevuld zijn!"}

<label for="voornaam">Voornaam</label>
<input type="text" id="voornaam" name="voornaam" />
{validate id="val_voornaam" field="voornaam" message="Voornaam moet ingevuld zijn!"}

<label for="naam">Achternaam</label>
<input type="text" id="naam" name="naam" />
</fieldset>


...[/php:1:6d0208f1bc]

I don't know for sure that my PHP code is correct, i just want the form to submit to itself, therefor i just display the form outside the validation if/else logic and don't use separate tpl's for form and result pages. Is smartyValidate able to work like this?

[mohrt]

it might have a problem with the {validate} tags in the form after you have done a SmartyValidate::disconnect(), is that the problem you are seeing?

[[ArcanE]]

Validate::disconnect clears the session vars i suppose? That might have caused it ... gonna check it today at work.

[[ArcanE]]

No success.
By removing the $validate::disconnect from the PHP page the Session var $_SESSION[smartyValidate][default][is_error] is indeed set to true but in the template {$validate.default.is_error} still gives no results either in a simple output or in an if statement.

[[ArcanE]]

One more thing i noticed, when added a {debug} function to my template i can't find the {$validate} var as a registered variable, something must go wrong with assigning the var to smarty?

This only happens when i have submitted the form, when i load the form for the first time the $validate variable is outputted in the debug window. After a submit it's nowhere to be found?

[wjdennen]

I'm having the same problem. In fact, I have a form that always seems to have validation errors, but it should not.

I assigned the $_SESSION variable to smarty and use the {debug} to see it.

[wjdennen]

I think the problem might be with isURL. When I comment out the lines that register this check, things work fine.

[reywob]

I've encountered this problem and unless I'm missing something, it's a bug in SmartyValidate.

When I first load my form {$validate} is set:

[reywob]

Right, cracked the problem. It was my fault for not reading the API documentation fully, but SmartyValidate behaves differently to how I believe it should.

The conceptual problem is that registering a form with SmartyValidate does not automatically register the rules with that form (that's OK, I understand why) - but neither does it make the ::is_valid method be bound to the form.

Why was the decision made to work with everything called statically? To me it would be more natural to register a form and get a return object. Then every call after this was with respect to this form - and another object could be instantiated for another form. Clearly there's a design reason I'm missing here as SmartyValidate doesn't work that way - could someone enlighten me?

[kaandorp]

I see you cracked the problem, but unfortunately I don't really understand your solution. Can you perhaps adjust the example you gave in the first post, so it will work?