Lithium PHP framework - validation rule doesn't trigger on existing field …

Question

I have a form for changing password. So the POST data include the fields password and passwordConfirm .

Also I have validation rules for these 2 properties in the Users model, and they work fine on registration - ie creating new user. But when updating existing user - they don't trigger.

In that case - I dumped the data of the entity inside the save() method of the basic model class:

$entity->data()

I see that both submitted fields/properties are already there ... and they are different. Immediately after that I dumped

$entity->validates()

and this gives me true ?!?! ...

How is that even possible ??? ...

PS: I'm dumping inside a core class of the framework ... and not some 3rd party library ...

Answer 1

I found the reason for the problem :) ...

On the validation rules, defined in the model by the previous developers, there was this clause:

'on' => 'create'

which was causing the validation rule not to trigger when editing.