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It's possible, when validating a form, to check if a field is correct dependently of an other field's value.

First, in your configure method, after the declaration of your validators, add :

$this->validatorSchema->setPostValidator(
    new sfValidatorCallback(
        array('callback' => array($this, 'checkRequiredFields'))
    )
);

And create a new method in your form class !

public function checkRequiredFields($validator, $values) {
    $errors = array();
    /**
     * checking if mandatory_field == 3, then other_field must be filled
     */
    if(3 == $values['mandatory_field'] && null == $values['other_field']) {
        $error = new sfValidatorError($validator, 'if you choose the option 3 for mandatory_field, you need to fill the other_field');
        $errors['other_field'] = $error;
        //throw new sfValidatorErrorSchema($validator, array('other_field' => $error));
    } else {
        // nothing to check
    }
 
 
    /**
     * checking if foo is selected, then bar must be filled
     */
    if(1 == $values['foo'] && null == $values['bar']) {
        $error = new sfValidatorError($validator, 'if you check foo, you need to fill bar');
        $errors['bar'] = $error;
    } else {
        // nothing to check
    }
 
    /**
     * more depency checking here
     */
 
    /**
     * if there is errors
     */
    if(count($errors)) {
        throw new sfValidatorErrorSchema($validator, $errors);
    }
    /**
     * dont forget to return values !
     */
    return $values;
}

2010-02-23 Updated: All errors are now returned once. 2010-02-23 Updated: Deleted the commented throw, added another check.