CakePHP : Validation message not displaying

Question

I\'m new to cakePHP and I\'ve made a simple form following some tutorial. On this html form I\'ve used validation. Now the problem is that the validation is working but the mess

Answer 1

That's built-in browser validation.

Since 2.3 the HTML5 required attribute will also be added to the input based on validation rules.

Your title has the notEmpty rule, so Cake is outputting

<input type="text" required="required" ..

and your browser is triggering that message.

Edit: to override this behaviour, you can do:

$this->Form->input('title', array('required'=>false));

or

$this->Form->submit('Submit', array('formnovalidate' => true));

When you submit the form, your model validation will fire.

Answer 2

Your Form-create() options are invalid, first argument is the model-name, second is for options:

<h2>Add New Post</h2>
<?php
     echo $this->Form->create('Post', array('action'=>'add'));
     echo $this->Form->input('title');
     echo $this->Form->input('body');
     echo $this->Form->end('Create Post');
?>

If the form-helper does not know which 'model' it is creating a form for, I won't check for field validation in the right place, hence, it won't output the validation errors for 'title'

[update] solution above didn't solve the problem. OP has modified the question

Some ideas:

1. Be sure to enable 'debug' (App/Config/core.php set Configure::write('debug', 2); Otherwise CakePHP may be using a 'cached' version of your model.

2. If you've named your Model incorrectly, Cake may be automatically generating a model for you, in which case your own model is never actually used, try this for debugging to see if we even 'get' to your model:

Add this to your model;

public function beforeValidate($options = array())
{
     debug($this->data); exit();
}

Answer 3

From your code what i can see is that you havent included helpers.

public $helpers = array('Html', 'Form', 'Session');
public $components = array('Session');

Just add to your controllers and try..