See Insane :D Thanks Sean I work in a closed box so i tend to forget such things :)
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Sean McArthur <sean.mons...@gmail.com>wrote: > @Paul: There is a need for server side validation. One: if user has > Javascript turned off, then server side is all you. Two: people may try to > submit malicious data, sending their own POST requests, which would skip the > client side validation. Server side validation is your last defense. > > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Paul Saukas <arasoihe...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Cheap one: I do not have an answer I am to lazy to search and just write >> my own :D >> >> >> Harder one: I see no need in the end. Client side is all you should need. >> If you are validating it correctly there then the data going in to the >> server should be good and not produce an error. If it does then I suppose >> you would handle it in the request then pass off if needed to the validator. >> Of Course I am hell and gone from Mootools guru so this may be totally >> insane :D >> >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:30 PM, hairbo <bmuel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm considering rolling the cool Form.Validator stuff into my generic >>> form code, and I have two questions, one cheap, and one more in-depth: >>> >>> Cheap one: I see the default error behavior I get with >>> Form.Validator.Inline. It's nice, but I was wondering if there was a >>> catalog out there somewhere of other ways to handle the error >>> messages. For example, I'd really like to have the error message >>> appear inside the <label> tag, but I'm trying to be lazy and not write >>> my own...<ducks>. >>> >>> More in-depth one: So client-side validation is nice, but obviously, >>> you still need to validate data on the server, and you still need to >>> be able to return errors from the server back to the client if you hit >>> errors. So, from that perspective, the only thing that client-side >>> validation really wins you is less of a server load, and maybe a nicer >>> experience for the end user. >>> >>> The slick thing to do would be to somehow integrate error messages >>> spit back by the server with error messages from Form.Validator. I'm >>> not 100% sure what the behavior should be like, but in a general way, >>> I'd imagine that the server would return <div class="validation- >>> advice"> tags that somehow Form.Validator would pick up, and then >>> appropriately display (and then appropriately remove, if/when the user >>> inputs data in the proper format). I guess my question is...does this >>> kind of integration exist? How do other folks handle this sort of >>> thing? >>> >>> Thanks. >> >> >> >
