> Have you solve it yet?
> I'm facing the same problem.

I bypassed the validator and wrote code in the validate() method.

documented on: 28 August 2007, omoratin

Thanks for the reply.

Just for the archive, I solved the problem by isolating the optional file upload into another view, in which only the file upload operation is enabled.

So the user can make changes as many time as they need in the original edit form (without the optional upload fields), and do the file upload in the file upload view.

No custom coding necessary.

documented on: 28 August 2007, xpt

> I bypassed the validator and wrote code in the validate() method

Could you share your code with me please?

I found my above method doesn't work well. Eg., it does not allows me to delete an upload.

Here it is. It's very custom since I have stuff from a config file

 // File upload settings
                if(!$mime_types=sfConfig::get('app_upload_rules_mime_types')){
                        throw new Exception("Mime types not defined for upload");
                }
                if(!$max_size=sfConfig::get('app_upload_rules_max_size')){
                        throw new Exception("File size limit not defined for upload");
                }
                if(!$extensions=sfConfig::get('app_upload_rules_extensions')){
                        throw new Exception("Extensions not defined for file upload ");
                }
                // Check for file errors in request
                $file=$this->getRequest()->getFile('file');
                if($this->getRequest()->getFileSize('file')!=null && $this->getRequest()->hasFileErrors($file)) {
                        $this->getRequest()->setError('file','The file size is above the maximum size limit (5Mbytes)');
                }elseif($this->getRequest()->getFileSize('file')){ // do more extensive testing
                        $fileValidator=new sfFileValidator();
                        $fileValidator->initialize($this->getContext(),array(
                                'max_size'=>$max_size,
                                'max_size_error'=>'File too big',
                                'mime_types'=>$mime_types,
                                'mime_types_error'=>"You can only upload JPEG, GIF, PNG, MP3 or MP4"));

                        if($this->getRequest()->getFileSize('file')>0 && !$fileValidator->execute($file,$error)){
                                $this->getRequest()->setError('file',$error);
                        }
                        // Check extension
                        $filename_split=explode('.',$this->getRequest()->getFileName('file'));
                        $ext=strtolower(array_pop($filename_split));

                        if(!in_array($ext,$extensions)){
                                $this->getRequest()->setError('file','The file doesn\'t have the proper extension');
                        }

                        // Make sure media type matches with file
                        $media_type=$this->getRequestParameter('type');

                        $media_ext=sfConfig::get('app_upload_rules_media_ext');
                        if(!$media_ext){
                                throw new Exception("Extensions not defined for file upload");
                        }


                        if($this->getRequest()->getFileSize('file')>0 && !in_array($ext,$media_ext[$media_type])){
                                $this->getRequest()->setError('file','The media type you selected requires a file with one of the following extensions: '.implode(', ',$media_ext[$media_type]));
                        }
                }

                if($this->getRequest()->hasErrors()){

                        return false;
                }

                return true;