I want to create a form field for a login script that allows either a username or an email address to be entered.
I have a validator
$loginName = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('loginName');
$loginName->addValidators(array('Alnum', 'EmailAddress');
Which does not work (because it seems to validate Alnum AND EmailAddress). I would like to validate Alnum OR EmailAddress.
Any suggestions on how to do this?
You have two options. You can either use a Regex validator, or you can write a custom validator which itself uses the Alnum and Email validators.
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.validate.writing_validators.html
The second option would look something like this:
class My_Validate_Field extends Zend_Validate_Abstract
{
protected $_messageTemplates = array(
'alnumemail' => "'%value%' is not an alphanumeric string or email address"
);
public function isValid($value)
{
$alnum = new \Zend_Validate_Alnum();
$email = new \Zend_Validate_EmailAddress();
$valid = $alnum->isValid( $value ) || $email->isValid( $value);
if( !$valid ) {
$this->_error();
}
return $valid;
}
}
