The method has to return something else then undefined. You can use the
remote-method instead, it allows you to do remote checks:
http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/Methods/remote
Jörn
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Samuurai <djbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is my first attempt at using addMethod and it's always returning
> true, for some reason.
>
> This is placed outside of document.ready
>
> jQuery.validator.addMethod("checkemail", function(email) {
> var email = $('#email').val();
> $.post("user/checkemail", { "email" : email },
> function(data){
> if(data.exists == "1")
> {
> return true;
> }
> }, "json" );
> }, 'This email already has already been registered');
>
> and in the validate() method, I'm calling the function like this:
>
> rules:{
> email: {
> required: true,
> email: true,
> checkemail: true
> }
> }
>
> Is there anything obvious i'm doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks!
