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Explicit Validation
You can explicitly trigger the validation for any record at any time. For this purpose
Doctrine_Record provides the instance method Doctrine_Record::isValid(). This
method returns a boolean value indicating the result of the validation. If the method returns
false, you can inspect the error stack in the same way as seen above except that no exception
is thrown, so you simply obtain the error stack of the record that didnt pass validation
through Doctrine_Record::getErrorStack().
The following code snippet shows an example of handling implicit validation which caused a
Doctrine_Validator_Exception.
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// test.php
// ...
$user = new User();
try {
$user->username = str_repeat('t', 256);
$user->Email->address = "drink@@notvalid..";
$user->save();
} catch(Doctrine_Validator_Exception $e) {
$userErrors = $user->getErrorStack();
$emailErrors = $user->Email->getErrorStack();
foreach($userErrors as $fieldName => $errorCodes) {
echo $fieldName . " - " . implode(', ', $errorCodes) . "\n";
}
}
foreach($emailErrors as $fieldName => $errorCodes) {
echo $fieldName . " - " . implode(', ', $errorCodes) . "\n";
}
You could also use $e->getInvalidRecords(). The direct way used above is just more
simple when you know the records you're dealing with.
You can also retrieve the error stack as a nicely formatted string for easy use in your
applications:
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// test.php
// ...
echo $user->getErrorStackAsString();
It would output an error string that looks something like the following:
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Validation failed in class User
1 field had validation error:
* 1 validator failed on username (length)
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