The JSON response can be true/false, or a String, handled as false (invalid), and the string will be used as the error message. You need the latest version (1.5.5) for that to work properly.
Jörn On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Guillaume Lecanu<guillaume.lec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I trying to replace my old AJAX system by the Validate plugin of > jQuery with the "remote" option. > > There is a way to return a custom error message directly from the > server side script ? > > For example, I have a "username.php" server side script that check : > - If the username is not used by someone else > - If the username doesn't contains any bad words > > So, the error message could be different. > > > If not, the only solution I see is to create special rules that > explicitly uses $.ajax() but this mean this will do 2 AJAX calls on > this page... it's not the best solution. > > > Thanks in advance for your advices ! >
