I'm writing a custom validator that is going to check for the existence of an email such that if it already exists in the database, the form is not valid. I'm having a hard time figuring out helper paths and namespaces for custom Zend_Validation classes.
I'd like to call the class My_Validate_EmailUnique but I keep getting error messages such as:
there is an error exception 'Zend_Loader_PluginLoader_Exception' with message 'Plugin by name 'My_Validate_EmailUnique' was not found in the registry; used paths: My_Validate_: /var/www/site/arc/helpers/
The class looks like this:
<?php
class My_Validate_EmailUnique extends Zend_Validate_Abstract
{
const EMAIL_UNIQUE = 'notMatch';
Can someone help me with where I register for the Zend_Form to look for custom validators?
You can directly add the validator to your form element. There is no need to write a custom validator for this.
In your form:
$element->addValidator(new Zend_Validate_Db_NoRecordExists('mytablename', 'myemailcolumnname'));
+1 for Db_NoRecordExists
- the docs have an example showing exactly what you want to do.
Otherwise, custom validators can be loaded like regular library classes, so try placing it on your include path.
/library/My/Validate/EmailUnique.php
You can also add a new entry to the Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader
if you want to keep it in your application folder, as opposed to your library:
// Bootstrap.php
protected function _initAutoloader()
{
$autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array(
'namespace' => 'My_',
'basePath' => dirname(__FILE__),
));
$autoloader->addResourceType('validator', 'validators', 'Validate')
return $autoloader;
}
And put the class My_Validate_EmailUnique
in:
/application/validators/EmailUnique.php
I've never registered a custom validator as a plugin before, so I can't help you there sorry.