Question

I want to validate fields with Cakephp model validation, without saving the data, for which i am using the following code in controller.

$this->Model->set($this->data);
if ($this->Model->validates()) {
   ......
}

But here i want to validate only some specific field like ’email_field’ and one of its rule ’email’. In model i have specified some other rules for ’email_field’ like ‘unique’ and ‘notempty’ but i don’t want to validate those rules.

How can it be achieved ?

Answer 1

you have different options

you can dynamically unset those other rules:

unset($this->Model->validate['field']['someRuleName']);

or you can assign a completely new rule set to this field

or you can use a different “nonexistent” field for this validation, e.g. “some_other_field” with special rules.