Question

This is the structure of $this->request->data:

 array(
        'Capture' => array(
             'items' => array (
                 0 => array(
                    'description' => '',
                    'amount' => ''
                 )
                 1 => array(
                    'description' => '',
                    'amount' => ''
                 )
            )
        )
)

And I have to validate this.

Answer 1

To validate multiple records with the same fields, you can use Model::saveAll and pass in a parameter telling it to only validate.

Note that I don’t think you can pass in your $this->request->data (the items level would throw it off) in the above format. It needs to either be in the format:

array(
    'ModelName' => array(
        '0' => array(...)
        '1' => array(...)
        //...
        'n' => array(...)
    ),
)

OR:

array(
     '0' => array(...)
     '1' => array(...)
     //...
     'n' => array(...)
)

So pass it into the function in the following way:

$this->Capture->saveAll($this->request->data['Capture']['items'], array('validate' => 'only'));

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Validating multiple fields with the same name