Question

I am using jQuery Wizard plugin and validating using the jQuery Validate plugin – developing in CakePHP 2.1

The jQuery wizard/validation.

It is supposed to be set up like this:

$(function(){
$("#JobAdCreateForm").formwizard({ 
    historyEnabled : true,
    validationEnabled: true,
    focusFirstInput : true,
    outDuration : 100,  
    validationOptions : {
        rules: {
            JobAdJobTitle: "required",
            JobAdCategoryId: "required"
        },
        messages: {
            JobAdJobTitle: "Please enter a job title.",
            JobAdCategoryId: "Please select a category.",
        }
    }
});  
}); 

In CakePHP the name attribute of the field looks like this:
data[JobAd][job_title] now that gives an error when I change the name attribute above to data[JobAd][job_title]. It would have worked perfect if the jquery.validate used the id attribute instead of the name atribute.

Any ideas on how I can solve this?

Answer 1

What about if you quote the name attribute?

rules: {
    "data[JobAd][job_title]": "required"
    // etc
}