ErrorException [ Fatal Error ]: Class 'Validate' not found

Question

Am getting an error while trying to integrate validation in kohana. following are error details

Error message title

ErrorException [ Fatal Error ]: Class 'Validate' not found

APPPATH\classes\Controller\home.php [ 24 ]

19  {
20       $_model = Model::factory('home');
21       
22       if ($this->request->method() == HTTP_Request::POST)
23       {
24           $post = Validate::factory($_POST)
25             ->filter(TRUE, 'trim')
26             ->filter('txt_name', 'strtolower')
27  
28             ->rule('txt_name', 'not_empty')
29             ->rule('txt_name', 'regex', array('/^[a-z_.]++$/iD'))

Please help me to solve this.

Answer 1

What version of Kohana are you using? For Kohana 3.3 it should be:

Validation::factory($_POST)

Also you can use $this->request->post() instead of $_POST

Looks like the filter method was deprecated from Kohana 3.2 so you could do the following as suggested here: How do I call the trim function on a Kohana 3.2 validation object?

$post = array_map('trim', $this->request->post());

$post = Validation::factory($post)
    ->rule('txt_name', 'not_empty')
    ->rule('txt_name', 'regex', array('/^[a-z_.]++$/iD'));

Or alternatively, you could use http://kohanaframework.org/3.3/guide/orm/filters