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[Phplib-users] oohforms select validation

[Matt W. <ma...@ye...>]

Hi all

I'm really tring my best to get to grips with oohforms but I am having some
problems.

I got over the fact that I have to validate text boxes myself :(.

Now I find myself at a loss about select box validation.

I make the value of the select items integers. The validation performs
flawlessly.
However If make the first item 0 (which is used to test for a valid entry
and the other values the string values that I want. The select box always
fails validation no matter which option I select.

Is there anything else I have to do to make this work? Or does anyone have a
patch fix to get this working.

m:

Re: [Phplib-users] oohforms select validation

[Tarique S. <ta...@sa...>]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Matt Williams wrote:

> I got over the fact that I have to validate text boxes myself :(.

Not really, We just created a patch to validate textarea using min_length
and max_length attributes - no valid_e as yet BUT it is simple to do

Will post a patch soon
 
> Now I find myself at a loss about select box validation.

I am not sure I get you - you just need that the user *must* select a
value right? 

OR am I missing something?

Tarique

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RE: [Phplib-users] oohforms select validation

[Matt W. <ma...@ye...>]

> > Now I find myself at a loss about select box validation.
>
> I am not sure I get you - you just need that the user *must* select a
> value right?
>
> OR am I missing something?

I managed to sort it out. The manual says that the first option will not be
accepted by the validator.

But if the value of the first item is an integer and the values for the
other select items are strings, the validation will always fail.
Setting it to a string or leaving out the value attribute, will make the
validation behave as expected.

So if I have

"options"=>array(array("label"=>"Please Select","value"=>1),
			array("label"=>"Apple","value"=>"apple")),
"size"=>1,
"valid_e"=>"Please Select",

etc...

The validation will always fail.
But if I change the first option to
array("label"=>"Please Select")

The select box will validate as expected

m: