Whenever doing client side, always also do server side. The only excuse I could see around this is if you had your forms setup to not submit except through javascript forcing it to be working on the clients machine. Even that excuse does not hold much for me.
In regards to what Ali stated wanting to verify, I have not used CF7's built in features for validation a whole lot but it seems like it might have pretty much everything already in the language to handle this without going to extreme measures to code it up. Sure it is not as simple as putting in <CF_MAKETHEWORLDHAPPY /> On 10/15/06, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to validate that you're suggeting to use client-side validation > IN ADDITION to server-side validation, correct? > > On 10/15/06, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I'd rather have just server side than just client side. > > > > There are things indeed that can only be done on server side, like > > verifying the existance > > of some data in a database, but most of the time, data validation can be > > done client side, > > and when it can be done client side, it is much better. > > Fist it is much faster for the user, then it uses his resources, not > > server's. > > You can verify a date is valid, for instance, just as easily in > > Javascript as in CFML. > > > > >>but no single tag is going to do your client and server-side > validating. > > > > Of course not, if there was such a tag, one almost wouldn't have any > > more code to write ;-) > > But you can have a tag that generates the Javascript necessary to > > do validation client side, <CFFORM and its sub tags is one example, > > and do the rest of the validation server side in the action template. > > > > -- > > _______________________________________ > > REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; > > See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm > > (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:256815 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
