Question

I’m creating an email form element like so (inside a Zend Form):

//create e-mail element
$email = $this->createElement('text', 'username')
              ->setLabel('E-mail:')
              ->setRequired(true)
              ->addFilters(array('StringTrim', 'StringToLower'))
              ->addValidator('EmailAddress', false, array(
                    'messages' => array(
                        Zend_Validate_EmailAddress::INVALID => 'Dit e-mail adres is ongeldig.',
                    )
              ));
//add element
$this->addElement($email);

Now, when an invalid e-mail is entered quite a lot of messages appear:

'#' is no valid hostname for email address '@#$@#'
'#' does not match the expected structure for a DNS hostname
'#' does not appear to be a valid local network name
'@#$' can not be matched against dot-atom format
'@#$' can not be matched against quoted-string format
'@#$' is no valid local part for email address '@#$@#'

I wonder, is it possible to make it only emit the error message provided by me, such as ‘Please enter a valid e-mail address.’?

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use addErrorMessage() to set a single custom message for all errors.

In your example you can add it to your code and call it fluently, or add the line

$email->addErrorMessage('Dit e-mail adres is ongeldig.');

You should also change the second parameter to addValidator as below, so that once validation has failed other conditions aren’t checked.

->addValidator('EmailAddress', true)

It is explained in the Reference Guide but not very well. The name addErrorMessage doesn’t imply that it will override the default messages, but there you are.