Representatives and automatically detecting keywords

rvillain

Hi all,

I have a field in my database called email_key and when I create a simple module, it tries to validate it as an email. I know of representatives and turning them off, but what about turning off the validation part? How do I do that? I need fuel to treat email_key as a regular text field--ultimately, I would want it to make sure it has 32 characters only--but I can figure that out myself.

Thanks in advance guys.
Ron

rvillain

Found out that the auto_validate_fields is causing the problem. Instead of removing email from the list, what's the best way to turn it off at the model level?

rvillain

Solved.

admin

For reference, there is a $auto_validate_fields property on a MY_Model which is set by default:
public $auto_validate_fields = array( 'email|email_address' => 'valid_email', 'phone|phone_number' => 'valid_phone' );
This basically says any field that has "email" or "email_address" in it will automatically try and validate it. Overwriting this value should make that problem go away:
public $auto_validate_fields = array( 'phone|phone_number' => 'valid_phone' );