Form Validation on Registration form

littlelorly · January 2012

In vanilla registration form, i have noticed that the validation of input fields is based in the fields of your table.

Now, i don't want the address, post code to be not required. What file do i need to edit? I'm using the register captcha form.

sahotataran · January 2012

you are going to have a little hard time to check out.

all views are located in

\applications\dashboard\views\entry

select the view you have enabled - recaptcha or whichever u have.
check the form action you have there - /entry/register
look for the controller entry in /applications/dashboard/controllers
look for class.entrycontroller.php
look for function register in there and make changes

x00 · January 2012

look at the RegisterCaptcha method

see

$this->UserModel->Validation->ApplyRule('FieldName', 'RuleName');

If you want to know how validation actually works look at

forum/library/core/class.validation.php

forum/library/core/functions.validation.php

You can see the existing rules that you can use and you can add rules like so

Validation->AddRule('RuleName','function:SomeFunction');

you can also do regular expressions e.g.

Validation->AddRule('RuleName','regex:`^[\d]{5}$`');

x00 · January 2012

@littlelorly

Generally validation follows the schema, so if something is not required in the database, it is not required on the form. You can set the default value to null.

I can't give in depth programming coaching, that is not really reasonable to expect this. I gave you the answer. I suggest you delve a little deeper, or pay someone to do it for you.

Ideally you would avoid editing the core if you can, you can hook the user model if nessisary

x00 · January 2012

I read "i don't want the address, post code to be not required" to mean you wanted them to be required.

But in any event first check your schema in the database before editing any code. The only reason why I added the addrule, bit is becuase stuff like post codes are often validated, but not necessarily required.

I didn't really get from the OP what you wanted.

littlelorly · January 2012

I have already looked at those files. But i don't see the script there that validates the input field.

littlelorly · January 2012

sahotataran said: you are going to have a little hard time to check out.

all views are located in

\applications\dashboard\views\entry

select the view you have enabled - recaptcha or whichever u have.

check the form action you have there - /entry/register

look for the controller entry in /applications/dashboard/controllers

look for class.entrycontroller.php

look for function register in there and make changes

Hi, i looked for function register in the class.entrycontroller.php but i couldn't found it.

Here is my form action:

$this->Form->Open(array('Action' => Url('/entry/register'), 'id' => 'Form_User_Register', 'enctype' => 'multipart/form-data'));

I'm using the registercaptcha form.

littlelorly · January 2012

Hi x00, thanks for the response. This is the code in the recaptcha function that i saw:

private function RegisterCaptcha() {
      include(CombinePaths(array(PATH_LIBRARY, 'vendors/recaptcha', 'functions.recaptchalib.php')));           
      if ($this->Form->IsPostBack() === TRUE) {             
      // Add validation rules that are not enforced by the model         
      //$this->UserModel->DefineSchema();    
      //print_r( $this->UserModel->Validation->Results());exit();
        // $this->UserModel->Validation->ApplyRule('Name', 'Username', $this->UsernameError);
         $this->UserModel->Validation->ApplyRule('TermsOfService', 'Required', T('You must agree to the terms of service.'));
         $this->UserModel->Validation->ApplyRule('Password', 'Required');
         $this->UserModel->Validation->ApplyRule('Password', 'Match');
         // $this->UserModel->Validation->ApplyRule('DateOfBirth', 'MinimumAge');

         if (!$this->UserModel->InsertForBasic($this->Form->FormValues())) {
            $this->Form->SetValidationResults($this->UserModel->ValidationResults());
            if($this->_DeliveryType != DELIVERY_TYPE_ALL) {
               $this->_DeliveryType = DELIVERY_TYPE_MESSAGE;
            }
         } else {
            // The user has been created successfully, so sign in now
            $Authenticator = Gdn::Authenticator()->AuthenticateWith('password');
            $Authenticator->FetchData($this->Form);
            $AuthUserID = $Authenticator->Authenticate();           

            try {
               $this->UserModel->SendWelcomeEmail($AuthUserID, '', 'Register');
            } catch (Exception $Ex) {
            }

            //$this->FireEvent('RegistrationSuccessful');



         }

      }
      $this->Render();
   }

littlelorly · January 2012

What part should i edit here, so that the address, postcode and other fields of the form will not be required.

Currently it requires all field to be filled in and that is what i saw in my recaptcha function.

littlelorly · January 2012

Thank you X00, got your point. I just need to change the database settings. Set the fields to null. Thank you so much

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