Question

In Kohana 3.2, passing external validation on Model_User upon save, why won’t the correct message show?

I have user.php in application/messages/models which reads and translates fine for the “internal” data, while _external.php resides in application/messages/models/user.

When _external data is invalid, the default error message from Kohana is shown, and thus not correctly translated or given the correct labels from Model_User.

Edit, with code:

// We have $_POST, register a new user
$user = ORM::factory('user');
/*
 *    Here a bunch of variables are set
 */
$extra = Validation::factory($_POST)->
        rule('email', 'email')-> // I run this check, because in my Model_User, email is filtered through Encrypt
        rule('name', 'not_empty'); // Same goes for name

try {
    $user->save($extra);
} catch (ORM_Validation_Exception $e) {
    $this->template->errors = $e->errors('models', true);
}

So, when $extra variables don’t match the rule, I would like to get nice error messages from application/messages/models/user/_external.php, which looks like:

return array(
    'email' => array(
            'email'         => ':field must be a valid email address',
        ),
    'name' => array(
            'not_empty'     => ':field must not be empty',
        ),
);

Also, it would be nice if :field was fetched from Model_User “labels”.

Answer 1

You need to put _external.php next to your user.php in the messages/models directory, not in the messages/models/user directory. I had the same problem, it worked for me.