Question

I am facing trouble to remove value from password field. When I submit signup form without entering one or more required field then its generate a 32 bit character value on password field.

I want to see this field blank in that case.

With Thanks,

MRS

Answer 1

It’s hard to say without some code, but it sounds like when the form validation fails on signup the form is re-populated (since it’s CActiveForm) with the data from the signup submission – which now includes the password which you have hashed?

One way to avoid this would be, on form submit, to just clear out the password after the save() or validate() fails. I’m guessing if you have basic Yii code your form post action will look something like this:

$model->attributes = $_POST['SignupModel'];
$model->password = cool_hash_function($model->password); // hashing the password - maybe you have this in beforeValidate(), I don't know
if ($model->save()) {
  $this->redirect('/success!'); // yay! redirect or whatever
} else {
  $model->password = ''; // if the save failed, clear out the password before re-rendering the form
}
$this->render('signup',array('model'=>$model)); // the form will now render without the pw

Yes, the user will need to re-enter their password. There might be other approaches to this depending on where in the process you are hashing the password before saving – and depending if I have come close to guess your actual issue. 🙂