Zend Form Password
When using Zend Form, and you have a password field and confirm password field, it is very handy to use Validation Context. It is described in the Zend documentation, just search for “My_Validate_PasswordConfirmation”. As is typical in Zend docs, the example is shit, they just give a class definition. So, here’s a brief example of I used it.
Basically what you need to do is attach the validator to both the password and the confirm password field.
So firstly, add the class:
class My_Validate_PasswordConfirmation extends Zend_Validate_Abstract
{
const NOT_MATCH = 'notMatch';
protected $_messageTemplates = array(
self::NOT_MATCH => 'Password confirmation does not match'
);
public function isValid($value, $context = null)
{
$value = (string) $value;
$this->_setValue($value);
if (is_array($context)) {
if (isset($context['password_confirm'])
&& ($value == $context['password_confirm']))
{
return true;
}
} elseif (is_string($context) && ($value == $context)) {
return true;
}
$this->_error(self::NOT_MATCH);
return false;
}
}
Then, in your form file, use it something like follows:
class RegisterForm extends Zend_Dojo_Form
{
public function init()
{
$form = new Zend_Form();
....
....
....
$custom_pass = new MyValidatePasswordConfirmation();
...
...
$password = $form->createElement('password', 'password')
->addValidator('StringLength', false, array(1,24))
->setLabel('Choose your password:')
->addValidator('Alnum')
->addValidator($custom_pass)
->setRequired(true);
$password_confirm = $form->createElement('password', 'password_confirm')
->addValidator('StringLength', false, array(1,24))
->setLabel('Confirm your password:')
->addValidator('Alnum')
->addValidator($custom_pass)
->setRequired(true);
It’s fairly straightforward, but of course there’s very few examples I could find, this is probably the best.
