Yii form model validation- either one is required
Something like this is a bit more generic and can be reused.
public function rules() {
return array(
array('username','either','other'=>'email'),
);
}
public function either($attribute_name, $params)
{
$field1 = $this->getAttributeLabel($attribute_name);
$field2 = $this->getAttributeLabel($params['other']);
if (empty($this->$attribute_name) && empty($this->$params['other'])) {
$this->addError($attribute_name, Yii::t('user', "either {$field1} or {$field2} is required."));
return false;
}
return true;
}
I was trying to solve same problem today. What I've got is the code below.
public function rules()
{
return array(
// array('username, email', 'required'), // Remove these fields from required!!
array('email', 'email'),
array('username, email', 'my_equired'), // do it below any validation of username and email field
);
}
public function my_required($attribute_name, $params)
{
if (empty($this->username)
&& empty($this->email)
) {
$this->addError($attribute_name, Yii::t('user', 'At least 1 of the field must be filled up properly'));
return false;
}
return true;
}
General idea is to move 'required' validation to custom my_required() method which can check if any of field is filled up.
I see this post is from 2011 however I couldn't find any other solution for it. I Hope it will work for you or other in the future.
Enjoy.
Yii2
namespace common\components;
use yii\validators\Validator;
class EitherValidator extends Validator
{
/**
* @inheritdoc
*/
public function validateAttributes($model, $attributes = null)
{
$labels = [];
$values = [];
$attributes = $this->attributes;
foreach($attributes as $attribute) {
$labels[] = $model->getAttributeLabel($attribute);
if(!empty($model->$attribute)) {
$values[] = $model->$attribute;
}
}
if (empty($values)) {
$labels = '«' . implode('» or «', $labels) . '»';
foreach($attributes as $attribute) {
$this->addError($model, $attribute, "Fill {$labels}.");
}
return false;
}
return true;
}
}
in model:
public function rules()
{
return [
[['attribute1', 'attribute2', 'attribute3', ...], EitherValidator::className()],
];
}