Cakephp - checkPasswords is always false - cakephp

Question

I'm working on the signup process and want to check if the two passwords (password + re-entered password) are equal. These are my validation rules in the User Model:
var $validate = array(
'username' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('minLength', 5),
'required' => true,
'allowEmpty' => false,
'message' => 'User name has to be at least 5 characters long'
),
array(
'rule' => 'isUnique',
'message' => 'User name taken. Use another'
)
),
'password' => array(
'notEmpty' => array(
'rule' => array('minLength', 6),
'required' => true,
'allowEmpty' => false,
'message' => 'Password has to be at least 6 characters long'
),
'password_similar' => array(
'rule' => 'checkPasswords',
'message' => 'Entered passwords does not match'
)
),
'email' => array(
'rule' => 'email',
'required' => true,
'allowEmpty' => false,
'message' => 'Please enter a valid email'
)
);
In the users_controller.php I have the checkPasswords function:
function checkPasswords($data) {
if($data['password'] == $this->data['User']['password2hashed'])
return true;
else
return false;
}
An my singup function looks like this:
function signup(){
if (!empty($this->data)) {
if(isset($this->data['User']['password2']))
$this->data['User']['password2hashed'] = $this->Auth->password($this->data['User']['password2']);
$this->User->create();
if ($this->User->save($this->data)) {
.
.
.
}
No matter what I do, the passwords do not match. Even if I change the checkPasswords function to this:
function checkPasswords($data) {
return true;
}
What could cause this behavior?

Answer 1

OMG I just realised that the checkPasswords Function is not supposed to be in the controller but in the model. Problem solved, I'm ashamed...