forms

How to fetch the GET/POST elements in a form without knowing the name of the controls inside the form

I had the list of items. When the user clicks a item, a div is generated with a textbox <input type="text" name="(DYNAMICALLY ASSIGNED VALUE)" /> So user can select multiple items. For each item a textbox is generated dynamically inside the form. When the user clicks the submit button, i want to fetch the GET/POSTED elements. How can we...

How to call a javascript function once on page load, page reloads, don't call it again

On a Magento shopping cart, there are 2 forms that need to be filled out: shipping estimate and coupon code. Each refreshes the page after submitting the form. The shipping estimate form needs to be submitted before the coupon form so that the coupon can validate the country. What I'd like to do is to call the shipping form's coShippin...

How can I create an error for primary-key ?

Hello, I have a form where the primary-key must be filled by the user. But if he enters a value existing, I have the page with doctrine error 'Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry'. I want to make an error message as the other key with $form['myKey']->renderError() I have tried to use sfValidatorDoctrineChoice : $t...

observe_form url confusion

i cannot seem to get observe_form to call a particular action i have a route defined map.resources :charges, :collection => {:charge_total => :get} my controller class ChargesController < ApplicationController def charge_total return 'foo' end end my view: i have tried both... observe_form form_id, :update => :charge_tota...

How to automatically switch focus of input elements on html form?

I have a html form with three inputs for phone number input. I want a cursor to move to next input after the current one is filled. Like you entered 3 digits in first box than cursor moves to second and after it is filled moves to 3rd. Is it possible to accomplish this without javascript? ...

ComboBox causes strange behavior on a Windows Form

I'm noticing some strange behavior when I add a ComboBox to my Windows Form: when I resize the Form without a ComboBox, it behaves correctly and the File menu stays where it's supposed to stay even when I drag the right corner as far left as possible. When I add the ComboBox and I try to do the same thing, then the File menu gets pushed ...

How can I create an order form?

I am new to Android, and am trying to develop an app that presents a list of choices with a textfield next to each that allows the user to enter in quantity information related to each item. What would be the best way to impliment this? Currently my app is using a buttonlist with checkboxes next to each item to select it. I'd like to ...

Is there a good language/syntax for field validation we can re-use?

I'm working on a web app (using Python & Bottle) and building a decorator for validating HTTP parameters sent in GET or POST. The early version takes callables, so this: @params(user_id=int, user_name=unicode) ... ensures that user_id is an int, user_name is a string, and both fields exist. But that's not enough. I want to be able to ...

ERB doesnt get executed in javascript scripts

Hi guys I have a select input on my page. this select input displays/hides fields in the form. This all works fine. But the problem is that if i submit the form and lack some necessary fields, it doesnt set the select to the right value afterwards. I just cant get the embedded ruby to work! it keeps escaping the whole thing... here my c...

Windows "forms" authentication - <deny users="?"> redirecting to foreign page!

Like the title states - I have a web.config file that looks like, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration> <system.web> <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" /> <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms name="login" protection="All" timeout="30" loginUrl="login" defaultUrl="~/"> <cr...

How can I ensure that parent_id is set correctly when creating new item based on existing item?

The Problem Funny problem. Funny because it looks casual until you start thinking about it. Let's say I allow people to create items based on other items. You can open /items/new?id=3 and unlike your regular new action, instead of seeing an empty form, you will be seeing a form pre-populated with values from item-3. So unlike your avera...

How to handle text copy/pasted from Word

We have a textbox where users will be entering reviews. They should be able to do simple formatting things like bold, italics, lists, headers, etc... Our problem is that the majority of our users will most likely create their reviews in MS Word then copy/paste the text to our form. As you know, this can (and mostly will) cause problems w...

jQuery $.ajax only working on first click inside of $.click

So heres my problem. On the first fire of my code it works perfect but I reload the submit button using javascript (rather then refreshing the page). Everything that doesn't have to do with ajax runs fine on the second click but I can not for the life of me get the ajax to run the next time the button is clicked. Here is my code: $("...

HTML Label float passed Checkbox on left

I have a checkbox and a label, and while the label is set after the checkbox, it appears before it when the page is in view. What could be the problem? <input name="signed" id="fd_supplier_contract_signed" type="checkbox" value="1" /> <label for="fd_supplier_contract_signed">Signed:</label> IMAGE: ...

Django forms integerField set max_value on runtime

I've got a form like this: class SomeForm(forms.Form): first = forms.IntegerField(max_value= DontWantToSetYet) second = forms.IntegerField(max_value= DontWantToSetYet) third = forms.IntegerField(max_value= DontWantToSetYet) How can I set the max_values at runtime? I.E if request.method == 'POST': form = SomeForm(request.POST, ...

rails form options helpers: is using a non-integer :selected value possible? (preselect)

i am trying to get a rails select form options helper to get a :selected value that is non-integer. actually i am using the object-id format from mongodb. the html example: <option value="4c613e3c8ee60a1c31000024">test</option> rails select: <%= select( "question", "#{number}", active_question.answers.collect{|x|[x.title, x.id] },{:...

Multiple forms with one page in tipfy

I haven't been able to find an example of using multiple forms on one page (or one Handler) for tipfy. I'm trying to allow users to both answer (form 1) and comment on an item (form 2) from the same page. One approach to doing this in PHP is submitting a hidden form and checking for it before processing. However, I'm not sure what t...

How do I create a form that submits two dates and outputs the report?

I currently have a controller which produces a report. This is the controller: def last5days #@monday = (Time.now).at_beginning_of_week @monday = (Time.now).months_ago(1) #@friday = 5.days.since(@monday)-1.second @friday = (Time.now) @sent_emails = ContactEmail.all(:conditions => ['date_sent >= ? and date_sent <= ...

Simple script issue?

Hi, for some reason I cannot get any form to work correctly on my website, I even went to w3school and copied a simple test form to see if it works, and it does not, here it is: welcome.php: <? Welcome <?php echo $_GET["fname"]; ?>!<br /> You are <?php echo $_GET["age"]; ?> years old. ?> form: <form action="welcome.php" method="g...

new/edit actions on show page :: best practice question

i am designing a dashboard page that summarizes data from multiple models, all on one page. and i also want to include forms on that page for creating new items. after some experimenting, i realized i needed some advice as to the best practice for this situation... here are the 2 methods i was attempting 1) using nested field_fors... ...