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  • Basic Usage
  • Options
    • limit
    • message
    • charset

MinLength

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MinLength

Caution

The MinLength constraint is deprecated since version 2.1 and will be removed in Symfony 2.3. Use Length with the min option instead.

Validates that the length of a string is at least as long as the given limit.

Applies to property or method
Options
  • limit
  • message
  • charset
Class MinLength
Validator MinLengthValidator

Basic Usage

  • YAML
  • Annotations
  • XML
  • PHP
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# src/Acme/BlogBundle/Resources/config/validation.yml
Acme\BlogBundle\Entity\Blog:
    properties:
        firstName:
            - MinLength: { limit: 3, message: "Your name must have at least {{ limit }} characters." }
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// src/Acme/BlogBundle/Entity/Blog.php
namespace Acme\BlogBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Blog
{
    /**
     * @Assert\MinLength(
     *     limit=3,
     *     message="Your name must have at least {{ limit }} characters."
     * )
     */
    protected $summary;
}
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<!-- src/Acme/BlogBundle/Resources/config/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="Acme\BlogBundle\Entity\Blog">
        <property name="summary">
            <constraint name="MinLength">
                <option name="limit">3</option>
                <option name="message">Your name must have at least {{ limit }} characters.</option>
            </constraint>
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
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// src/Acme/BlogBundle/Entity/Blog.php
namespace Acme\BlogBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Blog
{
    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('summary', new Assert\MinLength(array(
            'limit'   => 3,
            'message' => 'Your name must have at least {{ limit }} characters.',
        )));
    }
}

Options

limit

type: integer [default option]

This required option is the "min" value. Validation will fail if the length of the give string is less than this number.

message

type: string default: This value is too short. It should have {{ limit }} characters or more.

The message that will be shown if the underlying string has a length that is shorter than the limit option.

charset

type: charset default: UTF-8

If the PHP extension "mbstring" is installed, then the PHP function mb_strlen will be used to calculate the length of the string. The value of the charset option is passed as the second argument to that function.

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