Rick, >I'm leaning toward a combination of JS for user-friendliness with >the validation coming from ColdFusion programming. > >I get the best of both worlds that way.
It's not the best of both worlds. If you're doing all validation based on AJAX operations, then you've introduced a huge layer of complexity and point of failure to your code. Not to mention added additional HTTP requests that are unneeded. Only use AJAX validation for client-side errors for things that you can't do w/out interaction with the server (such as validating if a username exists.) There's tons of example code and libraries (such as qForms) that will allow you to easily apply client-side validation rules to your code. It's not that difficult to implement. There's absolutely no reason to make an HTTP request to see if a field is required, to see if a field looks like a valid e-mail address, to see if a value is a number, etc. There's tons of stuff out there that you can leverage. These are not difficult problems to solve. -Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275419 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
