CakePHP - radio button not showing error message

Question

Hi,

I'm unable to get the error message to show up when creating a radio form using the CakePHP form helper.

This is what I have now.

     $options=array('active'=>'Active','inactive'=>'Inactive');
     echo $form->input('Status', array(
  'type' => 'radio',
  'id' => 'EntryStatus',
  'name' => 'data[Entry][status]',
  'options' => $options

));

What am I missing?
I'm using CakePHP 1.2.7 and this is what I have in the validation

'status' => array(
    'notempty' => array(
         'rule' => 'notempty',
         'required' => true,
         'message' => 'yo'
         )
    )

Tried the answer from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1388823/form-helper-for-creating-radio-button-in-cakephp and it's giving me a select option form instead.

Thanks,
Tee

Answer 1

Have you tried using the explicit $form->radio() method instead of the general input() method?

Answer 2

Try taking a look at $form->input('Status' ... (capital 'Status') versus the DB column name (which might or might not be capitalized versus 'name' => 'data[Entry][status]' (not capital 'status').

Cake's form helper is picky about inserting error messages when it can't figure out what things go to what.

Answer 3

You need to manually add in an error form helper.

echo $form->error('status');

Answer 4

I had the same issue and I added:

<?php echo $form->error('currentStatus');?>

below the radio button and it worked fine.