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not validating on client side

Thread began 10/10/2010 6:26 am by watercolor346374 | Last modified 10/14/2010 1:17 pm by Jason Byrnes | 3075 views | 9 replies |

10/10/2010 6:26 am | #1 watercolor346374

not validating on client side

Hello,
I am using the validation tools for client side validation. This is a simple form that allows one to add recipes to a recipe site. I am using includes ie: the main file is recipe.php and other files associated with the recipe section are inc files. I have used this tool before with ecart and it worked like a gem, now it will not validate this form. This file is newrecipe.inc.php and it posts to addrecipe.inc. php. When I click submit it goes to addrecipe.inc.php, no validation on blank fields. The info that is added to newrecipe is posted to the database. I have submitted my file.
Thank you

Attached Files

newrecipe.inc.php.zip

10/12/2010 8:15 am | #2 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

for some reason the regular exprtession validation function was not added to the script tag in the head.

add the following code to the script in the head to define the regular expresion validation:

function WAValidateRX(formElement,inputType,regExStr,errorMsg,focusIt,stopIt,required)  {
  var isValid = true;
  var value=WAFV_GetValueFromInputType(formElement,inputType,required);
  var extraArgs = regExStr.substring(regExStr.lastIndexOf("/")+1);
  regExStr = regExStr.substring(regExStr.indexOf("/")+1,regExStr.lastIndexOf("/"));
  regExStr = regExStr.replace(/&quot;/g,'"');
  var regEx = new RegExp(regExStr,extraArgs);
  if ((!document.WAFV_Stop && !formElement.WAFV_Stop) && !(!required && value==""))  {
    var theMatch = regEx.test(value);
    if (!theMatch)  {
      isValid = false;
    }
  }
  if (!isValid)  {
    WAAddError(formElement,errorMsg,focusIt,stopIt);
  }
}

10/12/2010 10:58 am | #3 watercolor346374

script still will not validate

Thank you, I did as you said and the script still goes through without validation. I sent along the script with the added lines.
Thank you

Attached Files

newrecipe.inc.php.zip

10/12/2010 11:11 am | #4 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

it works when I test your page on my system.

Does the main page this one is being included into have a form on it? if so you will need to replace each form reference:
document.forms[0]

with:
document.forms[1]

10/12/2010 11:48 am | #5 watercolor346374

validation not showing

The main page that this is included in is barebones: recipe.php
<?php
session_start();//starts the session cookie
?>
<?php
include("mylibrary/showrecipe.php");
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Recipe</title>
<link href="kshotz.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

</head>

<body>
<div id="container">

<div id="header">
<?php include("header.include.php");
?>
</div>
<div id="nav">
<div align="center"><?php include('navbar.include.php'); ?></div>

</div>
<div id="leftsidebar"><?php include('recipenav.include.php'); ?>
</div>

<div id="main">

<div class ="content"><?php if (!isset($_REQUEST['content'])) include("mainrecipe.inc.php");
else
{
$content = $_REQUEST['content'];
$nextpage = $content . ".inc.php"; include($nextpage);
}
?>
</div>

<div class="rightsidebar">
<div class="lastview">
<?php include("lastview.inc.php");
?>
</div>

</div>

</div>

<div id="footer">
<?php include("footer.include.php");
?>
</div></div>
</body>
</html>
There is a page that shows specific recipes and it does have an addcomment, that links to the addcomment.inc.php include. addcomment.inc.php and newrecipe.inc.php are included into recipe.php. Would this make a difference?

Also, changed the document forms to 1 and still does not work.

10/13/2010 12:44 pm | #6 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

can you send a link where I can see the problem so I can investigate the cause.

10/14/2010 7:41 am | #7 watercolor346374

validation not showing or working

Hi Jason,
Here is the link:
recipe.php?content=newrecipe
the main url is kshotz.com then go to recipies and then add a new recipe.
Thank you,
K

10/14/2010 8:05 am | #8 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

there are 2 other forms on this page before the main one you are validating.

change each instance of:
document.forms[0]

to:
document.forms[2]

10/14/2010 10:55 am | #9 watercolor346374

validation not showing or totally workin

Hi Jason,
Making progress with this. I looked at the script and some major stuff was not added correctly. IE- instead of the correct variable for each form variable they all had: document.forms[2].title
So I changed it,now I get validation on all text but not for the drop downs. I checked them to old scripts that work and made the changes, but did not work. I am including the script and the link is recipe.php?content=newrecipe
This is very strange that so much was left out when I ran the wizard, it has always worked.
Thank you,
K

Attached Files

newrecipe.inc.php.zip

10/14/2010 1:17 pm | #10 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

you have regular expression validations applied to this form that are missing the regular expression to use.

go to Window -> Behaviors to open the behaviors list.

Select the first form element in design view, then select the Form tag from the tag selector.

In the behaviors window, double click each of the regular expression validations to correct them.

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