Re: QuickForm : problem with a custom rule

Frederic Poeydomenge wrote: >Hi folks, > >I would like to have your point of vue on a problem with HTML_QuickForm, >when registering a subclass of HTML_QuickForm_Rule (installed version = >3.2.4pl1). > >The problem is that, even if a file element is not declared as >"required", the validate() method from the custom class rule is ALWAYS >called, thus the form does not validate when submitting no file : > > require_once 'HTML/QuickForm.php'; > $form = & new HTML_QuickForm('builtin'); > > > $form->registerRule('webpic','rule','ImageWeb','ImageWeb.php'); > $form->addElement('file', 'picture', 'Picture:'); > $form->addRule('picture', 'Invalid Web picture', 'webpic'); > > $form->addElement('submit'); > $form->validate(); > $form->display(); > > (see attached code for the ImageWeb class) > >As it is the case with, for instance, an "email" rule, I would like my >field to be validated only if a file has been uploaded. > >I didn't find any valuable informations on the web about usage of custom >HTML_QuickForm_Rule classes. So I hope I didn't miss anything obvious, >or is it just a bug/feature in HTML_QuickForm ? I have checked and you are right. This is a bug not related to custom rules but handling of empty file fields. Could you please file a bug for this, thanks Bertrand Mansion Mamasam