Yii框架创建和验证表单输入字段

Question

I want to use HTML5 form inputs in my Yii project.

In the Yii framework, there are no functions to create type ='email' and type='tel' input fields like type='text'. There is a function to create text fields called textField() in the Yii Framework, but once I searched, they have only the tag() function to create "email" and "tel" input tags. I used that function in my code and created input fields, but the problem is that I cannot validate my form fields as it does so well with textField() functions.

This is my code:

echo CHtml::tag($tagName,
    array('id'=>'Contactus_email',
        'name'=>'Contactus['.$value['fieldname'].']',
        'class'=>'input_height',
        'type'=>'email',
        'placeholder'=>$value['placeholder']
    ), false, true);

Answer 1

As there is no CHtml::activeTag() method, which theorically would bind your input to a CActiveRecord property, I think you can't do validation on that input using built-in framework classes.

However, you can create your own CHtml and add a method MyHtml::activeEmailField(), which would be basically the same than CHtml::activeTextField() but overwritting the type=text attribute to type=email.

At a server-side level, make sure that you are using CEmailValidator in your model rules to prevent undesired input.