18 lines
1.3 KiB
PHP
18 lines
1.3 KiB
PHP
Validation in Doctrine is a way to enforce your business rules in the model part of the MVC architecture.
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You can think of this validation as a gateway that needs to be passed right before data gets into the
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persistent data store. The definition of these business rules takes place at the record level, that means
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in your active record model classes (classes derived from Doctrine_Record).
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The first thing you need to do to be able to use this kind of validation is to enable it globally.
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This is done through the Doctrine_Manager (see the code below).<br />
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Once you enabled validation, you'll get a bunch of validations automatically:<br />
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- Data type validations: All values assigned to columns are checked for the right type. That means
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if you specified a column of your record as type 'integer', Doctrine will validate that
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any values assigned to that column are of this type. This kind of type validation tries to
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be as smart as possible since PHP is a loosely typed language. For example 2 as well as "7"
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are both valid integers whilst "3f" is not. Type validations occur on every column (since every
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column definition needs a type).<br /><br />
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- Length validation: As the name implies, all values assigned to columns are validated to make
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sure that the value does not exceed the maximum length.
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