Zend Framework

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.1
• Component/s: Zend_Validate
• Labels:

  None

Symptoms:

• unexpected error messages from certain validators.

Example:
Zend_Validate_Regex has two errors: INVALID en NOT_MATCH. When the preg_match condition fails it returns the INVALID error and not the expected NOT_MATCH error. Resulting validation error message is "Invalid type given, value should be string, integer or float".

Cause of the problem:

• some validators call function _error() of Zend_Validate_Abstract without parameters to indicate the validation condition has failed.
• function Zend_Validate_Abstract::_error() without parameters takes the first message key from the $this->_messageTemplates array as 'the default error'.
• the default error depends on the order of errors in the messageTemplates array, which is not necessarily always correct.

Affected validators with unexpected validation errors:

• Zend_Validate_Regex
• Zend_Validate_Hex
• Zend_Validate_Float
• Zend_Validate_Int
• Zend_Validate_Ip

A number of other validators use the same technique but have only a single message:

• Zend_Validate_GreaterThan
• Zend_Validate_InArray
• Zend_Validate_LessThan
• Zend_Validate_Sitemap_Changefreq
  Which will probably cause problems when extending (and adding more messages).

Suggested solution:

• always explicitly set the error key.

• Assignee:

  Thomas Weidner

  Reporter:

  M.R. Visser

• Created:

  07/Aug/09 1:32 AM

  Updated:

  08/Aug/09 3:49 PM

  Resolved:

  08/Aug/09 3:49 PM