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WA Server Validation doing nothing!?

Thread began 4/15/2011 7:56 am by Nathon Jones Web Design | Last modified 4/19/2011 11:11 am by Jason Byrnes | 2691 views | 5 replies |

Nathon Jones Web Design

WA Server Validation doing nothing!?

We have set up WA Server Validation on a client contact page and it's not doing anything?
Our form submits to a confirmation page and the form data from the contact form also isn't being passed to the confirmation page.

Here's the page in question:
contact-galloway-heathers.asp

...and this is the confirmation page:
contact-confirmation.asp

I have also attached both pages in a zip file.

We're also not receiving emails to the email addresses specified in the To and Bcc fields in our Universal Email server behaviour which we have set up on the confirmation page.

Are we doing something wrong in the set up on server validations? This isn't the first time this has failed and it isn't the first time that Universal Email hasn't worked correctly.

No matter what we do, however, we can't resolve the issue. It's extremely frustrating.

Hope someone can help. Thank you.
Regards
Nath.

Attached Files
ContactPage-ConfirmPage.zip
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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

All Form Processing must occur on the forms action page.

you have applied the server validation to the form page, but it submits to the success page. The server validation must occur on the page that the form posts to.

form data can be tricky to work with, keep these rules in mind when developing forms:
1) Form data is only available to the forms action page.
2) The Form data is cleared from the servers memory as soon as the action page finishes loading to the client browser.


When I test your form, I can see the data that I entered on the success page.


For the problems with the email sending, Try Leaving the From Name blank and only specify a from address.

try using a hard coded from address rather than dynamic, some servers will not relay the email message if the from address is not a valid email address from the same domain.

double check with the host to make sure you are using the correct SMTP Server address as well.

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Nathon Jones Web Design

switched them over

Thanks Jason,

I've switch that around then, with the Server Validation running on the confirmation page as opposed to the original form page.

I've added a Validation Show If to the form page though and it isn't appearing when the validation fails?

This is uploaded the same two URL's in the original post, and I also attach the new pages.

Thanks again.
Nath.

Attached Files
Contact-Confirm-Ver1-0.zip
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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

change line 51 - 55:

<%
if (cStr(ValidatedField("contactconfirmation","contactconfirmation")) <> "") then
if ((inStr(("," & cStr(ValidatedField("contactconfirmation","contactconfirmation")) & ","),("," & "" & ",")) > 0 OR "" = "")) then
if (NOT(false)) then
%>



to:

<%
if (cStr(ValidatedField("contactgallowayheathers","contactgallowayheathers")) <> "") then
if ((inStr(("," & cStr(ValidatedField("contactgallowayheathers","contactgallowayheathers")) & ","),("," & "" & ",")) > 0 OR "" = "")) then
if (NOT(false)) then
%>
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Nathon Jones Web Design

?

Thank you Jason. That's fixed it.

What had I done wrong though? I simply ran a "WA Validation Toolkit > Validation Show If" and thought I'd followed the correct procedure.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

it looks like you applied the validation show if code when the validation was still on the form page and not after moving the validation to the action page.

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