Building Component - Replace "Invalid Field: My Field" with Custom Message

Question

I am developing Custom Component for Joomla.

I did well in validating field by adding custom rule. But if entered value does not pass through my validation, it gives error as "Invalid Field: My Field Name"

I want to replace this with my own message.

I know I can use "JText::_('LANGUAGE_STRING'). But I'm not sure where do I need to add it.

I have custom rule called "validemails" which returns false in client side as well as server side validation.

My Client side Validation is: (components/com_helpdesk/models/forms/create.js)

jQuery(document).ready(function () {
    document.formvalidator.setHandler('validemail', function (value) {
        var emails = [value];
        if (value.indexOf(';') !== -1) {
            emails = value.split(';');
        }
        else if(value.indexOf(',') !== -1) {
            emails = value.split(',');
        }
        regex = /^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&’*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*$/;
        var result = false;
        emails.each(function (value) {
            result = regex.test(jQuery.trim(value));
            if (result === false) {
                return false;
            }
        });
        return result;
    });
});

My Server Side Validation is: (components/com_helpdesk/models/rules/validemail.php)

use Joomla\Registry\Registry;

JFormHelper::loadRuleClass('email');

class JFormRuleValidemail extends JFormRuleEmail {

    public function test(SimpleXMLElement $element, $value, $group = null, Registry $input = null, JForm $form = null) {
        $emails = array($value);
        if (strpos($value, ';') !== false) {
            $emails = explode(';', $value);
        }
        else if (strpos($value, ',') !== false) {
            $emails = explode(',', $value);
        }

        foreach ($emails as $email) {
            if (!parent::test($element, trim($email))) {
                return false;
                continue;
            }
        }

        return true;
    }

}

Please note that I'm developing Front-end view of Component not back-end.

Answer 1

Well fortunately, I got my server side validation working by this way:

use Joomla\Registry\Registry;

JFormHelper::loadRuleClass('email');

class JFormRuleValidemail extends JFormRuleEmail {

    public function test(SimpleXMLElement $element, $value, $group = null, Registry $input = null, JForm $form = null) {
        $emails = array($value);
        if (strpos($value, ';') !== false) {
            $emails = explode(';', $value);
        }
        else if (strpos($value, ',') !== false) {
            $emails = explode(',', $value);
        }

        foreach ($emails as $email) {
            if (!parent::test($element, trim($email))) {
                ***$element->addAttribute('message', JText::_('COM_HELPDESK_ERROR_EMAIL').' '.$value);***
                return false;
                continue;
            }
        }

        return true;
    }

}

I got the solution. May be it will be useful for other googlers. Below is a code snippet for client side validation. Put below code in your custom JS:

jQuery('.validate').click(function (e) {

    var msg = {"error": []};
    if (jQuery('#jform_priority').hasClass('invalid')) {
        msg.error.push(Joomla.JText._('COM_HELPDESK_PRIORITY_ERROR'));
    }
    if (jQuery('#jform_description').hasClass('invalid')) {
        msg.error.push(Joomla.JText._('COM_HELPDESK_DESCRIPTION_ERROR'));
    }
    if (jQuery('#jform_subject').hasClass('invalid')) {
        msg.error.push(Joomla.JText._('COM_HELPDESK_SUBJECT_ERROR'));
    }      
    if (jQuery('#jform_bcc').hasClass('invalid')) {
        msg.error.push(Joomla.JText._('COM_HELPDESK_BCC_ERROR'));
    }
    if (jQuery('#jform_cc').hasClass('invalid')) {
        msg.error.push(Joomla.JText._('COM_HELPDESK_CC_ERROR'));
    }
    Joomla.renderMessages(msg);
    e.preventDefault();
});

Answer 2

I don't know for the JS side of things, but for the php you would do:

$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$app->enqueueMessage(JText::_('LANGUAGE_STRING'), 'warning');