Using validates() in cakePHP 1.2

Today I was dealing with a nasty problem. I was trying to validate form data without saving it, which was supposed to work like this:

if ($this->Location->validates($this->data)) {}

The only problem was… it didn’t work! It took me some time until I figured out that the Parameter usage of validated() is deprecated: Thanks to cakebaker for his blog entry!

So if you are trying to achieve the functionality from above you should use this code instead:

if ($this->Location->create($this->data) && $this->Location->validates()) {}

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