Not finding my class sfValidatorString

[helloise]

i have a unit test that call this line:

phoenix/test/phpunit/unit/RbcTest.php:
[code=php]
     $coverage->start('strtolowerTest.php');
[/code]

now in phoenix/test/phpunit/unit/strtolowerTest.ph

[code=php]
$t = new lime_test(2,  new lime_output_color());
$t->is(myValidatorString::slugify('sensio   labs'), 'sensio-labs');
$t->is(myValidatorString::slugify('paris,france'), 'paris-france');
$t->is(myValidatorString::slugify('  sensio'), 'sensio');
$t->is(myValidatorString::slugify('sensio  '), 'sensio');
$t->is(myValidatorString::slugify(''), 'n-a', '::slugify() converts the empty string to n-a');
$t->is(myValidatorString::slugify(' - '), 'n-a', '::slugify() converts a string that only contains non-ASCII characters to n-a');

[/code]

then: phoenix/lib/validator/myValidatorString.class.ph

class myValidatorString extends sfValidatorString
{

static public function slugify($text)
{
    echo "in myvalidatorstring for class sfValidatorString.class.php";
    // replace all non letters or digits by -
    $text = preg_replace('/\W+/', '-', $text);

    // trim and lowercase
    $text = strtolower(trim($text, '-'));

    if (empty($text))
    {
        return 'n-a';
    }

    return $text;
}

when i run the RbcTest i get an error that it cannot find the class sfValidatorString which is in phoenix/lib/vendor/symfony/lib/validator/sfValidatorString.class.php

how can i fix this please?
thanks

[bradgrafelman]

Can you show us the code that defines the sfValidatorString class?

[helloise]

bradgrafelman;10998009 wrote:

Can you show us the code that defines the sfValidatorString class?

Sure..it is a symfony class:
It cannot find it in the way i defined it, cos it is in a symfony directory and i must point to or include that directory. i tried set_include_path and also require_once and inlude_once but i still get "cannot find class"

thanks

<?php

/*
 * This file is part of the symfony package.
 * (c) Fabien Potencier <[e-mail]>
 *
 * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 * file that was distributed with this source code.
 */

/**
 * sfValidatorString validates a string. It also converts the input value to a string.
 *
 * @package    symfony
 * @subpackage validator
 * @author     Fabien Potencier <[e-mail]>
 * @version    SVN: $Id: sfValidatorString.class.php 12641 2008-11-04 18:22:00Z fabien $
 */
class sfValidatorString extends sfValidatorBase
{
  /**
   * Configures the current validator.
   *
   * Available options:
   *
   *  * max_length: The maximum length of the string
   *  * min_length: The minimum length of the string
   *
   * Available error codes:
   *
   *  * max_length
   *  * min_length
   *
   * @param array $options   An array of options
   * @param array $messages  An array of error messages
   *
   * @see sfValidatorBase
   */
  protected function configure($options = array(), $messages = array())
  {
    $this->addMessage('max_length', '"%value%" is too long (%max_length% characters max).');
    $this->addMessage('min_length', '"%value%" is too short (%min_length% characters min).');

$this->addOption('max_length');
$this->addOption('min_length');

$this->setOption('empty_value', '');
  }

  /**
   * @see sfValidatorBase
   */
  protected function doClean($value)
  {
    $clean = (string) $value;

$length = function_exists('mb_strlen') ? mb_strlen($clean, $this->getCharset()) : strlen($clean);

if ($this->hasOption('max_length') && $length > $this->getOption('max_length'))
{
  throw new sfValidatorError($this, 'max_length', array('value' => $value, 'max_length' => $this->getOption('max_length')));
}

if ($this->hasOption('min_length') && $length < $this->getOption('min_length'))
{
  throw new sfValidatorError($this, 'min_length', array('value' => $value, 'min_length' => $this->getOption('min_length')));
}

return $clean;
  }
}