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Multiple Update Server Side Validation

Thread began 4/16/2019 5:44 am by Thomas Hill | Last modified 4/18/2019 9:05 am by Ray Borduin | 462 views | 6 replies |

Thomas Hill

Multiple Update Server Side Validation

Hi,

I am just wondering if DataAssist v2 has the ability to do Server Side Validation when updating multiple records on a single page?
I have scoured the helps files and can't find anything.

Many thanks, in advance.
Thomas

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

What are you trying to validate? It probably isn't built in, but I can help you implement it.

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Thomas Hill

That's good of you, thanks.

I currently have an area of my site which allows me to enter details for VIPs (i.e. names, addresses and telephone numbers only) which I assign to a user's booking.

The (authorised) user of the booking is then required to check and confirm the details for all of the VIPs for the booking (usually between 2 to 4 VIPs).
I guess I could set up a page to require the user to validate each VIP individually but I like having it on one page for speed.

I hope my explanation is clear.
Let me know your thoughts.

Many thanks,
Tom

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

Client validation is easier... just add the required attribute to any field that needs to be validated. Server validation is the stronger validation, but more difficult to pull off and may be more work than it is worth since this form is for authenticated users that wouldn't probably do something like disable javascript to get around the client validation.

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Thomas Hill

No problem, this is what I've currently been doing. However, I am just using the following which just requires an input.

<input name="vipFirstName_<?php echo($wa_startindex); ?>" type="text" class="form-control" id="vipFirstName_<?php echo($wa_startindex); ?>" value="<?php echo $WADAourbigday_vips->getColumnVal('VIP_FirstName'); ?>" required oninvalid="this.setCustomValidity('You must provide a first name')" oninput="setCustomValidity('')">

However, this means users could enter some unwanted characters < >$%* etc.
As you've pointed out they need to be authorised and so it is very unlikely but would be useful to know.

Many thanks,
Tom

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

You can add a pattern attribute to tag to restrict characters. Something like: pattern="[a-zA-Z0-9]+" would probably work for a first name.

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Thomas Hill

Thanks Ray, that's really helpful.
I've also added an apostrophe so that is allows names which occasionally include one:

pattern="[a-zA-Z0-9']+"

Many thanks for your awesome help.

Many thanks,
Thomas

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