cakephp isUnique for 2 fields?

Question

I have a registration form in which users can fill in two email address (email1 & email2). Marketing\'s requirement is that they need to be unique (unique as in if we ha

Answer 1

I posted a solution to this on the CakePHP Google Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_frm/thread/b3a1e4ae3eeb6091/e168f54bac27c163?lnk=gst&q=checkUnique#e168f54bac27c163

Add the following to your AppModel:

        /** 
         * checks is the field value is unqiue in the table 
         * note: we are overriding the default cakephp isUnique test as the 
original appears to be broken 
         * 
         * @param string $data Unused ($this->data is used instead) 
         * @param mnixed $fields field name (or array of field names) to 
validate 
         * @return boolean true if combination of fields is unique 
         */ 
        function checkUnique($data, $fields) { 
                if (!is_array($fields)) { 
                        $fields = array($fields); 
                } 
                foreach($fields as $key) { 
                        $tmp[$key] = $this->data[$this->name][$key]; 
                } 
                if (isset($this->data[$this->name][$this->primaryKey])) { 
                        $tmp[$this->primaryKey] = "<>".$this->data[$this->name][$this- 
>primaryKey]; 

                } 
                return $this->isUnique($tmp, false); 
        } 
} 

and is used in your model validate:

        var $validate = array( 
                "name"=>array( 
                        "unique"=>array( 
                                "rule"=>array("checkUnique", array("name", "institution_id")), 
                                "message"=>"A contact with that name already exists for that 
institution" 
                        ) 
                ) 
       );