forms

Rails - Help scoring an online quiz in RoR

I'm trying to grade a quiz application I would like to make. I have a questions model with and ask(the actual question), 4 choices(a-d), and a correct answer(string). In the view I have the 4 question being diplayed then the correct answer choice (This is just a test for functionality) and then I created a text_field to accept the use...

Saving a Django form to a csv file

I have a Django form that is working fine. I'd like to save the data it submits to a CSV file. Is there a "best practice" way to do this? I need to include blank fields in the CSV file where the user has not filled in a "required=False" field ...

Can I not submit a form to a servlet from JSF?

* Unable to find matching navigation case with from-view-id '/home.xhtml' for action 'MemoServlet' with outcome 'MemoServlet' I try to accomplish it through: <h:commandButton type="submit" value="add" action="MemoServlet"/> but all the tutorials in the world only do it with a bean, which i don't want. I've come across any navigat...

Keep form fields filled after an error (RoR)

After validation, i got error and return back to :action => :new. Some field on form already filled, so i want to keep them filled afterr error message too. How it can be done? Thanks. ...

What are the precise rules/PHP function for encoding strings into POST arrays?

Greetings, Just getting into PHP web development. I've got an HTML form where a user checks some series of dynamically-generated checkboxes, and submits via POST. On the PHP side, I want to check which of the check-boxes were clicked. I have an array $full_list, and am doing something like $selected_checkboxes = array_filter($full_l...

Jquery forms plugin problem

I have the following: $(document).ready(function(){ // bind 'myForm' and provide a simple callback function $('#form').ajaxForm(function() { alert("Works!!!"); }); }); The problem is that when I dynamically add the form to the HTML the script is not working. If the form is the...

Oversize cursor in Firefox form with textbox background image

Hi all, I have a webform with background images on the textboxes to give them a nice rounded corner. In Chrome the textboxes work as expected, however, if I view the form in Firefox the cursor appears to size to the height of the image, but the text is a normal size. Is there a way to override this oversized cursor? Here is the CSS of...

Google Chrome form autofill and its yellow background

Hello ! I have design problem with Google Chrome and its form autofill function. If Chrome remembers some login/password it changes a background color to a yellow one. Here are some screenshots: How to remove that background or just disable this autofill ? ...

How does 37signals job preview functionality work?

Hi all, I'm interested in getting preview functionality working similar to how the 37signals job site does: http://jobs.37signals.com. Below are some screen shots of how it works. Step 1. Create your ad http://cl.ly/dfc4761b015c7f43c8ab (URL /jobs/new) Step 2. Preview your ad http://cl.ly/9c4b4041cfea83d8569e (URL /jobs/new/preview) S...

Handling apostrophes, php and pgsql

For my forms, I'm using pg_escape_string on every field before I insert them into the database. So I get something like firstname='O''reilly'. But when I try to print that out, I get O''reily, 2 apostrophes. Shouldn't it only 1 apostrophe, O'reilly? This isnt a debugging problem, im just wondering if you have firstname='O''reilly', how ...

How to make form validation in Django dynamic?

I'm trying to make a form that handles the checking of a domain: the form should fail based on a variable that was set earlier in another form. Basically, when a user wants to create a new domain, this form should fail if the entered domain exists. When a user wants to move a domain, this form should fail if the entered domain doesn't ...

submit form - jquery problem

Hello all, I am trying to raise a click event on a submit button in a html form. I use the .click() jquery to catch the click event and return true at the end of the function. When I click on the submit button, the jquery functions are raised and a callback is executed, but the $_POST array is empty. How can I fix this? code: <form a...

Javascript form validation only works in firefox

Hello, I am relatively new to Javascript so I'm hoping this is a simple mistake. I building a generic form validation function that is called on the form's onSubmit. The function loops through all the form's child elements, looks for certain classes, and analyzes the contents of the appropriate fields. If it finds something missing or er...

Changing a Select dropdown with a jquery ui slider

Trying to set a select dropdown with a slider. You move the jquery ui slider and then it will change the selection of the other two dropdowns. is there a current method in jquery that would set these options? Current dropdown: <select id="alert-options-frequency-opts"> <option value=""></op...

C Builder TForm not allocated or created properly all its controls

I would know how i can check that all the controls on the form is created and initialized. I have form i am showing when user presses the 'update' button. It have only TProgressBar control. The handle is not NULL for this control and at random stages it can or can't set the Position/Max values. When i set TProgressBar->Max value to so...

PHP Multiple form tokens

I understand the idea of generating a form token and storing it in a session, and also putting it as a hidden input in my forms. But how could I make this work if I have pages with multiple forms, is it still safe to use the same token for each form? And I still feel weary about bots and stuff on my website, can these form tokens reall...

Multiple steps form. All-in-one or multiple web pages.

Is it preferable to develop multiple steps form (80+ fields grouped into 5 steps) as single web page (tabbed) compared to page-per-step approach if users tend to complete form when started to populate? What are draw-backs big tabbed single page and page-per-step forms usually have? Thank you in advance! ...

Rails view - user enters minutes, we save seconds?

Hi everyone, I have a simple text_field in my form where a user enters a time in minutes, i.e. 60. How can I multiply that number by 60 before saving the form, such that the database stores the number in seconds? Then, how do I reverse that and show the field in minutes on another view? Thank you! ...

How to keep PayPal variables secure

I'm trying to link my 3rd party shopping cart to PayPal, and in the process I'm finding that my variables are extremely exposed, such that, if someone uses, say, Firebug, to manipulate the values of my variables, they can change the cost of the items in the transaction. I'm very new to online carts and shopping, so my question is how do...

Need help getting Wysihat to work

Hi all, I'm using Wysihat in a rails project and am stumped by its inability to bind to my textarea named post_description (model name Post field name description). I have the following in my head tag: <%= javascript_include_tag 'prototype_1.7'%> <%= javascript_include_tag 'wysihat' %> <script type="text/javascript" chars...