CakePHP SET error => false FOR All Forms - forms

Question

I want to handle application feedback regarding, in this case, form validation.
To do this I check for model validation in controller, using
// VALIDATE
if ($this->Event->validates($this->data))
{
// SAVE
$this->Event->create();
if ($this->Event->saveAll($this->data, array('validate' => false)))
{
$this->Session->setFlash('Evenimentul a fost salvat!', 'flash_admin_success');
$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index', 'admin' => true));
} else {
$this->Session->setFlash('Evenimentul nu a putut fi salvat. Va rugam sa incercati din nou!', 'flash_admin_error');
}
////////
$errors = 'O EROARE';
$this->set(compact('errors'));
}
else
{
// GET ERRORS to display it nicely :)
$errors = $this->Event->invalidFields();
$flash = '';
foreach($errors as $error)
{
$flash .= $error."<br />";
}
$this->Session->setFlash($flash, 'flash_admin_error');
}
I know that there is a way to get rid of form field errors using 'error' => false, but i want to set this for the entire application, thus for all fields in all forms.
It has to be there a way of setting that fot the object itself, and I would be gratefull if someone would tell me.
Thaks a lot!

Answer 1

Edit: This doesn't really disable error output, but will hide the error: go to webroot/css/cake.generic.css add display:none to selector div.error-message. That's the simplest way to achieve what you want that I can think of.

Answer 2

Though it may seem like a bit of an extreme approach to override a single property, you can achieve this by extend the core FormHelper. This will allow you to make Anh Pham's original suggestion the default for all FormHelper instances:
// app/views/helpers/app_form.php
App::import('Helper', 'Time');
class AppFormHelper extends FormHelper {
public $_inputDefaults = array('error' => false);
}
Now to use this as-is in CakePHP 1.3, you would have to use "AppForm" throughout your application to refer to this helper from now on (ie. $this->AppForm->input()). CakePHP 2.0 introduces helper aliasing to overcome this, but for now one has to resort to a bit of trickery to continue using "Form" instead. One blog post I found shows how to backport the functionality and another manages allow the helper to do it itself. I personally use the following without any problems:
// app/views/app.php
class AppView extends View {
function &_loadHelpers(&$loaded, $helpers, $parent = null) {
$return = parent::_loadHelpers($loaded, $helpers, $parent);
# rename App helpers (ie. AppHtml -> Html)
foreach ($return as $helperName => $helper) {
if (substr($helperName, 0, 3) === 'App') {
$newHelperName = substr($helperName, 3);
$return[$newHelperName] = $return[$helperName];
}
}
# done
return $return;
}
}
To use the new created classes above, just add the following to your AppController:
// app/app_controller.php
class AppController extends Controller {
public $helpers = array(/*...*/, 'AppForm');
public $view = array('App');
}