The registration form for new users follows validation rules. All the inputs are required. The username should be unique and the username length should be between 3 and 15 characters.
If user or admin choose username that has already been taken, the user account will not be created and the following error will be displayed:
If user or admin type username that is shorter than 3 or longer than 15 characters, the user account will not be created and the following error will be displayed:
The password field and confirmed password field should matched. The rule ‘matchPassword’ is not cakePHP rule, since cakePHP does not have rule to compare fields.
The public function ‘matchPassword’ takes one argument – data. The function compares if password field value matches the confirmed password field value. If fields are equal than function returns true. If fields are not equal than the password confirmation field is invalidate, the error message is displayed and the function returns false.
If user or admin type password and confirmed password that do not match, the user account will not be created and the following errors will be displayed:
Check the previous screens – password and password confirmation fields are hashed. The public function beforeSave() hashed passwords before stored in database:
