form-validation

ASP MVC 2 Custom CLASS Validation Attribute error messages not displaying

In my model metadata class, I'm using the data annotation attributes for poperty validation. This works fine. I have created an Attributes namespace and 4 custom validation attributes deriving from System.DataAnnotations.ValidationAttribute in it; all these attributes validate the entire model itself, because they have to compare multi...

How to send arguments when requesting form

During user registration I'm calling some custom function : def user_created(sender, user, request, **kwargs): form = ExtendedRegistrationForm(validateemail=True, request.POST, request.FILES) When requesting a form I need to give additional bool argument validateemail. This though give me error : Exception Type: SyntaxError at / ...

Recommendation for python form validation library

I would like a form validation library that 1.separate html generation from form validation; 2.validation errors can be easily serialized, eg. dumped as a json object What form validation library would you choose in a python web project? ...

Form validation in addition to YUI

Hi, I'm in the process of adding some much needed client side form validation to a website I'm working on. We're currently using YUI. YUI doesn't have any form validation built in as I can see(prove me wrong). I googled it http://code.google.com/p/yui-form-validator/ It's not important that it's a YUI-extension as long as it plays alo...

ASP MVC 2 ValidationSummary strange behavior?

In my application I am using Entity Framework 4.0 for an ORM and I have a model metadata class defined for a Student in the models. I am using DataAnnotations for validations, and it's worked great. But I had a few instances where I needed custom validation attributes, because they applied to the class, not to individual properties. I...

Disable a form 'action' if jquery validation fails

I'm trying to finalize my webpage's shopping cart and I'm running into one final problem. There is a text box next to my 'add to cart' button that requires a specific hardware key (Fingerprint) to be entered before completing the purchase. I need to set it up so that the end-user cannot click "add to cart" until that field is validated. ...

validate form before submitting (more complicated than checking for empty fields)

i have a form containing inputs for times (specifically, an opening and closing time). when the submit button is pressed, it goes to a php page where these inputs are added to a database. i want to check a few things before allowing the form to submit. for example, i want to make sure that the start time is earlier than (less than) the e...

Clean html input in Codeigniter

HI guys, I building an app using CodeIgniter and I came to a problem. I have a form with a textarea in which the user puts his text using a simple editor powered by jwysiwyg.jquery. The problem is that is need to clean this input of garbage code (link the one that comes with pasting directly from Word). The form is validated with the ...

Jquery Ajax Validate Checkboxes

Probably a simple solution so I'm a bit embarassed, but JS is not really my forte so I figure I'll ask. I'm using the Jquery Form plugin to submit a group of checkboxes for requirements for an event planning app I am making. I'm having trouble making my validation presubmit callback refuse the form if there is no array key for 'require...

Strange validation error messages

I'm using the standard authentication form. It's clean method looks like this : def clean(self): username = self.cleaned_data.get('username') password = self.cleaned_data.get('password') if username and password: self.user_cache = authenticate(username=username, password=password) if self.user_cache is None:...

Trying to write a regex that matches only numbers,spaces,parentheses,+ and -

I'm trying to write a regular that will check for numbers, spaces, parentheses, + and - this is what I have so far: /\d|\s|\-|\)|\(|\+/g but im getting this error: unmatched ) in regular expression any suggestions will help. Thanks ...

Only allow numbers in an input with javascript and allow copy and paste?

I'm using this function to only allow numbers in a text input. $('input').bind('keydown', function(e) { var key = e.charCode || e.keyCode || 0; return ( key == 8 || key == 9 || key == 46 || (key >= 37 && key <= 40) || (key >= 48 && key <= 57) || (key >= 96 && key <= 105)); ...

In symfony forms how I can validate a field (i.e. password) querying the db for the right value ?

Newbie question. I've created a very simple LoginForm class in symfony. It checks if the user inserts the username and the password in the field and It work as expected. // UserLoginForm :: configure() $this->setWidgets(array( 'username' => new sfWidgetFormInputText(), 'password' => new sfWidgetFormInputPassword(), )); $this->setV...

JQuery Validate (errorPlacement) focus

Hi All, I'm developing an application with asp.net mvc and I have a form to register some customers. I'm validing this forms with JQuery Validate and works fine, but I'm try to make a customization the way like users view the messages, by the way im using errorPlacement. But when the form is validated the message that show in my "div e...

Passing any argument to jQuery validate success option

Hello! jQuery validate has a success option that allows you to perform operations when a user enters valid form data. It typically takes the argument of "label" which is a dynamically inserted tag for displaying a success label (like a checkmark). I can't retrieve siblings of "label" for some reason and it doesn't appear in Firebug. ...

ASP.NET Form value validation scenario

I have the following html in my ASP.NET form. It represents a dropdown menu to let the user choose his budget. When the user selects a value on the list. A jquery code copies the selected value in the ProjectBudget hidden field so it can be submited through the form. <p><label>Project budget*</label></p> <a href="#" class="SelectionDrop...

Jquery form validation style

I'm using Jquery's form validation plugin. I wanna display validation error messages inside the fields that are invalids. For example, if the email field is invalid, I wanna clear its content and display the message above it. I say above, 'coz there's no need to change the content to the error message. How is that? ...

jquery form validation issue

<script type="text/javascript"> jQuery.validator.addMethod("steam_id", function(value, element) { return this.optional(element) || /^STEAM_0:(0|1):[0-9]{1}[0-9]{0,8}$/.test(value); }); jQuery.validator.addMethod("nome", function(value, element) { return this.optional(element) || /^[a-zA-Z0-9._ -]{4,16}$/.test(...

Checkeach array item has a value

I am trying to error check a form that on submitting creates an array, however no value in that error can be empty, how can I check this using PHP, the array looks like this, Array ( [campaign_title] => [campaign_keyword] => [introduction] => [position] => left [campaign_headline] => Array ( [...

Can anyone suggest a resource that lists suggested maxlengths for common fields like city, email, phone, etc?

I know email addresses are limited to 254 characters, but is there a single resource that outlines suggested maxlengths for common fields like contact information e.g. phone, city, etc? It seems every project I work people just shoot from the hip on their proposed limits. I'm hoping to find a canonical reference, targeted to a specific ...