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Here's a way to perform a cleaner and better way of validating your model data in CakePHP.

This component adds a few validation options to the already wonderful CakePHP form validation. These features include:
Confirm - Checks two or more fields to make sure they are an exact match (designed for password creation).
Unique - Checks to make sure that a field is not already present in the database (ie email, username, etc).
More output options - There are three output options - unordered list in a div tag of your choice, a JavaScript alert, or just the array to do what you want with it.
Error Class - It has the option to change the CSS class of the label tags for the invalid fields.

The component uses Ajax to be able to validate without refreshing the page. It also relies heavily on the "Standard" CakePHP naming conventions for easier integration.

Automates several aspects of multi-page forms including data persistence, form preparation, wizard resetting (manual and automatic), user navigation, and plot-branching navigation while maintaining flexibility with custom validation and completion callbacks.

Tutorial can be found here: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/wizard-component-1-2-tutorial

Automates several aspects of multi-page forms including data persistence, form preparation and unique data processing, wizard resetting (manual and automatic), user navigation, and plot-branching navigation while maintaining flexibility with custom validation and completion callbacks.

This is a tutorial for my Wizard Component 1.2 found here: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/wizard-component-1-2-1.

I don’t like CAPTCHAs. I don’t know anyone who does.The downfalls of CAPTCHAs are many - hard to read, annoying, impossible for those with vision difficulties - and the benefits are slim. So, I came up with an alternative: a plain text math question to ask the user. This component generates a random equation and registers the answer as a session variable. The programmer can then check the form submitter’s answer against the session-registered answer using the validation function provided in the component.