----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:52
AM
Subject: RE: [KCFusion] validate
They
do in the form of regular expressions.
Here's the example for email addresses
Validating an
E-Mail Address
Want to add an e-mail validation? You can do that, too.
It's as easy as specifying that the validation will be using regular
expressions (using VALIDATE="regular_expression") and then offering the
_expression_ in a new PATTERN attribute. Here's an example that will validate
e-mail addresses:
<CFFORM
ACTION="">
Email: <CFINPUT TYPE="Text"
NAME="email"
VALIDATE="regular_expression"
PATTERN="
^([_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)[EMAIL PROTECTED](\.[a-z0-9-]+)*\.
(([a-z]{2,3})|(aero|coop|info|museum|name)))?$"
MESSAGE="Email
is improperly formatted">
<INPUT
TYPE="Submit">
</CFFORM>
That regular _expression_ in the PATTERN attribute
may seem quite daunting. For now, just accept that regular expressions that do
something useful may exist - and the cool thing is you can copy them from
others to get the benefit.
This is from http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/articleprint.cfm?id=379
Anybody else find this strange that this does
not exist
<cfinput type="text"
validate="email">
Adaryl "Did you reboot?" Wakefield
Aviator
by passion
Programmer by sheer force of
will
