email form validations

Hi Jason

Have got an email form that is doing everything it should but on submit does not display the error messages if a required field is wrong/empty and cant see what has been done wrong.

have atatched the page and a link to the live page if you need that in the PM

Cheers

Jamie

this line needs to come before the form tag:

<script src="webassist/progress_bar/jquery-blockui-formprocessing.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Hey Jason

'fraid that didnt work. I have also started it from scratch (see attached and PM) and the same is still happening.

The z-index of your main wrapper is cuasing the validation errors to stack behind.

in the webassist/jq_validation/Default.css file, add z-index:1; to the wrapper:


.Default-wrapper {
left: 0;
opacity: 0.8;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
z-index: 1;
}

You, Jason, are a star

Many thanks

you're welcome.

OOps seem to have a slight issue with both those forms now. The form works fine and the validations are working fine. The issue is that if you click on the submit button with no or incorrect entries in a field and then navigate away form the page, when you come back the error messages are still showing.. not sure how to clear them when leaving the page?

Cheers

Jamie

validation failure is stored in a session.

the validation errors will be cleared if a) The form submits properly, or b) the browser is closed.

The actual use case where a site visitor will try to fill in the form, browse away then back is minimal at best.

If you insist on clearing the errors though, look at the server validation code block. on the first contact page it is lines 12 - 29:

<?php 
 if ((isset($_POST["Submit"]) || isset($_POST["Submit_x"])))  {
   $WAFV_Redirect = "".(htmlentities($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"], ENT_QUOTES))  ."?invalid=true";
   $_SESSION['WAVT_contact_Errors'] = "";
   if ($WAFV_Redirect == "")  {
     $WAFV_Redirect = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
   }
   $WAFV_Errors = "";
   $WAFV_Errors .= WAValidateRQ((isset($_POST["Full_Name"])?$_POST["Full_Name"]:"") . "",true,1);
  $WAFV_Errors .= WAValidateRQ((isset($_POST["Telephone"])?$_POST["Telephone"]:"") . "",true,2);
  $WAFV_Errors .= WAValidateEM((isset($_POST["Email_Address"])?$_POST["Email_Address"]:"") . "",true,3);

   if ($WAFV_Errors != "")  {
     PostResult($WAFV_Redirect,$WAFV_Errors,"contact");
   }
 }
 ?>

make note of the session mane in the 3rd line:

$_SESSION['WAVT_contact_Errors'] = "";


you can then add code after the closing </html> tag to clear that session:

<?php if(isset($_SESSION['WAVT_contact_Errors'])) unset($_SESSION['WAVT_contact_Errors']); ?>

Point well made! lol thanks for the solution though!

Jamie

You're welcome.