test 2

Say you wanted to validate that someone was over 18 years of age, its acutally quite simple once you know what your doing, but it took me a while to work out all the bits, so i thought i would put it in here to save some one a bit of time...

on the template you have

<p>
 
  <label for="date_of_birth">Date of Birth:</label>
  <?php echo form_error('day');  ?>
  <?php echo form_error('month');  ?>
  <?php echo form_error('year');  ?>
  <?php echo select_day_tag('day', $sf_params->get('day')) ?>
 
  <?php echo select_month_tag('month', $sf_params->get('month')) ?>
  <?php echo select_year_tag('year', $sf_params->get('year'),array('year_start'=>'1900','year_end'=>date("Y"))) ?>
</p>
 

in signup.yml (due to the way i built my form, you dont actually need to validate the day and month, since there is no way to leave them empty, but i have put the code in for completness)

methods:
  post: [day, month, year, gender]
 
names:
  day:
    required:     true
    required_msg: You must verify your age.
 
  month:
    required:     true
    required_msg: You must verify your age.
 
  year:
    required:     true
    required_msg: You must verify your age.
    validators:   ageValidator
 
 
ageValidator:
    class:         myAgeValidator
    param:
      too_young_error: You must be over 18 to enter.
 

now in /lib/AgeValidator.class.php, we put the code to check the dates.

class myAgeValidator extends sfValidator
{
  public function initialize($context, $parameters = null)
  {
    // initialize parent
    parent::initialize($context);
 
    // set defaults
    $this->setParameter('too_young_error', 'Invalid input');
    $this->getParameterHolder()->add($parameters);
 
    return true;
  }
 
  public function execute(&$value, &$error)
  {
 
// get the passed values for the date fields
    $day_param = sfContext::getInstance()->getRequest()->getParameter('day');
    $month_param = sfContext::getInstance()->getRequest()->getParameter('month');
    $year_param = sfContext::getInstance()->getRequest()->getParameter('year');
 
    $min_age=strtotime("-18 YEAR");
    $entrant_age= strtotime( $year_param . "-" . $month_param . "-" . $day_param);
 
# just in case ;-)
#sfContext::getInstance()->getLogger()->debug('min_age->'.$min_age);
#sfContext::getInstance()->getLogger()->debug('entrant_age->'.$entrant_age);
#sfContext::getInstance()->getLogger()->debug('param-day->'.$day_param);
#sfContext::getInstance()->getLogger()->debug('param-month->'.$month_param);
#sfContext::getInstance()->getLogger()->debug('param-year->'.$year_param);
 
if ($entrant_age <$min_age ){
    return true;
}
 
$error = this->getParameter('too_young_error');
return false;
  }
}