id second that. I have gotten very comfrotable with QForms.. it seems to play an important role in my projects lately. If you need a hand, yahoo groups has a great list going for QForms, oir email me off list and if I can help.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Ewok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: <cfinput> & form validation I'ds uggest taking a look at Qforms by PengoWorks http://www.pengoworks.com/index.cfm?action=qForms ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Doom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:56 AM Subject: RE: <cfinput> & form validation > Personally, I don't care for the cfinput validation stuff. It simply writes > JavaScript (which I could pretty easily write myself) for whatever > validation you specify. > > For basic validation, it's easy enough to write your own JS and have it > behave /exactly/ as you want. For complicated stuff, I'm usually willing to > round-trip to the server for server-side validation. You get the ability to > do the work in CF plus they can't bypass it by turning off JS in the browser > or writing their own form or what-have-you. And, of course, you can make > the page throw flags or highlight things or whatever instead of that > standard grey box that always annoys the designers. :-) > > Anyway, for my own stuff, I /always/ write my own little validators. It > just makes for a better result IMHO. > > > -- Ben Doom > Programmer & General Lackey > Moonbow Software, Inc > > : -----Original Message----- > : From: Azeem Huda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > : Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:35 AM > : To: CF-Talk > : Subject: <cfinput> & form validation > : > : > : I have created a typical membership form and am trying to > : validate the form > : on the client side utilising <cfinput> tags. > : However, I have come up against a few problems and am stumped. > : > : 1) I have set the required=yes in most of my <cfinput> fields > : yet the order > : at which the javascript error message appears, i.e. the > : validation is not > : in the same order as the fields in my form > : > : 2) When the onerror attribute is included, the error message > : does not appear > : > : Basically, I need the form to display the relevant error message when a > : field is left blank/the wrong datatype and highlight the offending field. > : Can someone point me in the right direction? > : Thanks in advance, > : Azeem > : > : > : > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
