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How to "masquerade" a non-required form element as 'required' one (in the view only)
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How to "masquerade" a non-required form element as 'required' one (in the view only)
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In a nutshell, the task at hand is to mark (or render) a model attribute in the typical "_form.php" view file with the 'required' red asterisk while this attribute is not marked as required in the model's rule() method.
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- You have a model with two phone numbers attributes: _phone_ and _fax_. Phone is q required field while fax is not. Yet, if submitted, both should be validated as 'phone numbers', hence use a custom validator class, [PcSimplePhoneValidator](http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/pcsimplephonevalidator/)).
- So, you're rules() method will need to look like this:
```php
public function rules() {
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Consider the following use case:- You have a model with two phone numbers attributes: _phone_ and _fax_. Phone is q required field while fax is not. Yet, if submitted, both should be validated as 'phone numbers', hence use a custom validator class, [PcSimplePhoneValidator](http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/pcsimplephonevalidator/)).
- So, you're rules() method will need to look like this:
```php
public function rules() {
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Last updated by: mrun
Created on: Sep 11, 2012
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