Question

I have a form that it seems to me Cake is making fields required or not required so randomly that I can’t even control it. Please help me to understand how to get required fields working.

public $validate = array(
    'fname' => array(
        'rule1' => array(
            'rule' => 'notEmpty',
            'message' => 'Please enter your first name'
        ),
        'rule2' => array(
            'rule' => array('maxLength', '50'),
            'message' => 'First name cannot exceed 50 characters'
        )
    ),
    'sname' => array(
        'rule1' => array(
            'rule' => 'notEmpty',
            'message' => 'Please enter your last name'
        ),
        'rule2' => array(
            'rule' => array('maxLength', '50'),
            'message' => 'Last name cannot exceed 50 characters'
        ),
    ),
    'email' => array(
        'rule1' => array(
            'rule' => 'notEmpty',
            'message' => 'Please enter your email address'
        ),
        'rule2' => array(
            'rule' => array('maxLength', 100),
            'message' => array('Email cannot exceed 100 characters')
        ),
        'rule3' => array(
            'rule' => 'email',
            'message' => 'Please enter a valid email address'
        ),
        'rule4' => array(
            'rule' => 'isUnique',
            'message' => 'An account already exists with that email address',
            'on' => 'update'
        )
    )
);

All these 3 fields cannot be empty, but Cake is deciding to make fname and sname show as required on the form, but email is not required. I’m talking about the class on the inputs making it look required. This is so random. In the database the fields are all identical VARCHAR, NOT NULL.

I tried adding allowEmpty => false to the email but it doesn’t do anything. This works on other fields that only have one rule but doesn’t work on fields that have multiple rules. Still, I want to know why it is making fname and sname required but not email.

Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/imeqW.gif

Answer 1

Hi in the table for email field make it as could not be

NULL

(I think email column can accept null values like that u created the table) then it Required * symbol will come on view. Surely it will work, I face the same issue like this