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Using validation to prevent P.O. Box addresses and shipping to outside of 48 states.

Thread begun 9/27/2017 8:00 am by jlowery | Last modified 9/28/2017 11:01 am by Ray Borduin | 6788 views | 16 replies |

jlowery

Using validation to prevent P.O. Box addresses and shipping to outside of 48 states.

My client wants to disallow P.O. Boxes for shipping. Is it possible to use the jQuery Validation for this? If so, what reg ex do I put in the Address 1 / Address 2 fields via the dialog? I tried the solution found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16722720/how-to-negate-po-box-regex - but wasn't successful.

I also need to make sure that shipping is not allowed to Alaska, Hawaii or international locations. How would I do that?

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jlowery

A quick follow-up... I also tried the various reg ex found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5680050/po-box-regular-expression-validation

While they worked to prevent P.O. Boxes in various forms (box, Box, PO box, etc.) they also blocked standard addresses.

And I solved the issue of disallowing shipping for Alaska, Hawaii and non-US countries - just removed those options from the select lists.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

Are you trying to do client or server side validation? Regex isn't very good at preventing patterns. It is better for forcing a particular pattern. I can come up with a work around for you, but it depends on the type of validation you are using.

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jlowery

I can go either way. I was using the JQuery Form Validation dialog 'cause it was the first one I saw and generally I like to validate on blur, but I'm okay with doing it onSubmit. Thanks.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

I think a server validation is easiest.

You can use non-blank validation with a value like:

php:
<?php echo(preg_match("/p(ost)?[ |\.]*o(ffice)?[ |\.]*(box)?[ 0-9]*[^[a-z ]]*/",$_POST['addressfieldname'])?"":"1"); ?>



This technique allows you to essentially test for the opposite of a regular expression. You are matching the specific pattern of a po box address instead of matching an address that doesn't have a po box. Then validating that it doesn't match that expression.

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jlowery

Cool. Where do I plug this in?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

When you do server validation for non blank validation... that is the value you validate. (of course update the form field name with yours)

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jlowery

I found the Server Validation sb in Data Bridge, which I just re-installed, but I can't get it (or anything else) to open the first time. I get a flash of a dialog box and no way to validate the installation. What do I do?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

It sounds like the secondary installer didn't run.

You should install data bridge with dreamweaver closed.

Then next time you open dreamweaver it should run the secondary installer.

Then you have to close and open dreamweaver one more time before accessing the functionality.

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jlowery

yeah, I had to uninstall and re-install for it to fire. Okay, I added a server validation to the page, but I don't understand how to plug in the code you sent. Here's what I have now:

<?php 
if (isset($_POST["CheckoutWizard_submit"]) || isset($_POST["CheckoutWizard_submit_x"])) {
$WAFV_Redirect = "";
$_SESSION['WAVT_checkout_712_Errors'] = "";
if ($WAFV_Redirect == "") {
$WAFV_Redirect = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
}
$WAFV_Errors = "";
$WAFV_Errors .= WAValidateRQ(((isset($_POST["Address_1"]))?$_POST["Address_1"]:"") . "",false,1);

if ($WAFV_Errors != "") {
PostResult($WAFV_Redirect,$WAFV_Errors,"checkout_712");
}
}
?>
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