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Validate a form on multiple pages and save it on the last page

Hi all,

I'm struggling with something, maybe you know the solution!

I would like to have a form, which is divided in more pages. The user fills in his/her username / password on the first page, then clicks 'next' and fills in the next on page 2 and so on. On the last page, the user needs to get all the information filled in and at last save it to the database. No problem so far, i just store all the data in a session. And everytime i redirect to a new page i store new data in the session. At the last page I get all the data and show it, and save this data to the database.

But what if i want to validate this data each time for each page? If I build a validation function in my user model, it validates every field every time, but I just want it for some fields that are just on that page, and show their errors on that page...

Ofcourse I could build more functions in my model, so that every page has his own validation, but in the future i would use it for other elements, so that's not the best solution..

Do you know what to do?

Thanks!



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Instead of validating in the model (which in your case would only happen in the last page) you can validate each form as it comes up.

Have a look at this

https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/forms.html#validation



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Thanks, that is a solution. But then i have 4 forms of the same model but in different parts? That's not ideal? I want to use one form and at every page use some fields of that form.

I thought maybe i can give my validation() funtion some parameters, and each time i 'post' something (clicking 'next' ) I get the data, validate it with a parameter of that page and if it is ok, set the data in the session..

In the validation i simply check the parameter, and do only the validation of that parameter and so that page.

Maybe that works?