The Big Programming Thread - Page 812

        try {
            $this->em = $this->getManager();
            $this->verbose = $verbose;
            $this->logger = $this->getContainer()->get('logger');
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            // not really anything we can do here, since either the em set fails and logger isn't set,
            // or logger fails and logger isn't set
            // maybe we just cry here?
            dump("something happened");
            dump($e);
        }

                // at some point this should do something productive instead
                $request_type = $this->getRequestType($request);

        $rule = $this->getRepository('SharedBundle:ProgramRule')->findActiveRule($dates, $program, $group->getId());
        # findActiveRule returns the first rule it can find that matches everything, though the only reason there would be
        # multiple is if one of us was futzing with the db

        if (!is_array($contract->_contract_participant_fees)) {
            return 0; # this should probably never happen, except it did, see TD-84
        }

    //$data contains all the changes to the row.
    //$new is true if we're inserting a row, and false if we're saving it.
    //If anything other than true is returned, validation fails.
    //This means you may return an error code or string or anything.
    //This is called before the validation rules defined in $_rules.
    public static function _validate($data, $new = false)
    {
        return true;
    }