Password checking in dojo

Answer 1

I've solved it!

This page on the Dojo forum was helpful.

I changed the HTML for the confirm password to:

<p>Confirm: <input type="password"
name="password2"
id="password2"
dojoType="dijit.form.ValidationTextBox"
required="true"
validator="return theSame(this, dijit.byId('password1'));"
invalidMessage="This password doesn't match your first password" /></p>

The only difference is the added validator parameter.

And I created the following JavaScript function:

function(dojoTxt1, dojoTxt2) {
return dojoTxt1.getValue() == dojoTxt2.getValue();
}

I think you can also use the validator parameter to create regular expressions to test against, but the documentation isn't very clear.

Answer 2

Is there any way to do this from the programmatic (Zend Framework) approach?

Answer 3

Even easier, use the pre-written Dojox widget, dojox.form.PasswordValidator.

http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojox/form/PasswordValidator

It does everything you want straight out of the box!