validation

RegularExpressionValidator always fails, but ValidationExpression works in testing

I found the answer to this, but it's a bit of a gotcha so I wanted to share it here. I have a regular expression that validates passwords. They should be 7 to 60 characters with at least one numeric and one alpha character. Pretty standard. I used positive lookaheads (the (?= operator) to implement it: (?=^.{7,60}$)(?=.*[0-9].*)(?=.*[a...

When do you trust the data / variables

We all know that all user data, GET/POST/Cookie etc etc needs to be validated for security. But when do you stop, once it's converted into a local variable? eg if (isValidxxx($_GET['foo']) == false) { throw InvalidArgumentException('Please enter a valid foo!'); } $foo = $_GET['foo']; fooProcessor($foo); function fooProcessor($foo)...

Intercepting creation of new object.

I'm adding a categorization functionality to my app and struggling with it. Objects have many categories through categorizations. I'm trying to intercept the creation of a new categorization, check if theres a similar one, if so, increment it's count, if not, create a new object. Here's what I have so far. validate :check_unique ...

Drupal FAPI: Add form elements on nodeform after validation

Hi, I use Drupal 6.x. In my own module I alter each node form an add my own validation handler to it using $form['#validate'][] = 'my_own_validation_function'; Then I have the function function my_own_validation_function($form, &$form_state) { //if validation fails, i would like to rebuild the form to add additional form elements i...

Validation error language in asp.NET dynamic data WEB-site

Hello, I need to change language of validation error to another language. Validation logic must not be changed. I just want to translate The field f5080eb8_0a83_4b89_b339_233528441711 must be a valid integer. into another language. For example from English into Italian. I search in Visual Studio(Entire Solution) for this texts must...

An AuthLogic form is giving me incorrect validation errors -- why?

Hi everyone, I set up AuthLogic for Rails according to the AuthLogic example: http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic_example. I can log on successfully to the system, but when accessing users/new.html.erb to register a new user, the form returns the following validation errors: Email is too short (minimum is 6 characters) Email shoul...

asp.net mvc Jquery client side validation

Hello, I have a strange problem. while MicrosoftMvcValidation works in my mvc project, MicrosoftMvcJQueryValidation doesn't. this is my code: <script src="../../Scripts/MicrosoftMvcJQueryValidation.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="../../Scripts/MicrosoftMvcValidation.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <% Html.En...

asp.net client validation MicrosoftMvcJQueryValidation

Hello, I'm trying to use asp.net mvc's 2 client validation ( <% Html.EnableClientValidation(); %>) with a modal box (facebox). and can't get it to work. I've tried the following solutions and none of them worked: www.phpvs.net/2010/04/26/manually-validate-an-asp-net-mvc-form-on-the-client-side-with-microsoftmvcvalidation-js-and-jquery...

Grails: Duplicates & unique constraint validation

OK here is stripped down version of what I have in my app Artist domain: class Artist { String name Date lastMined def artistService static transients = ['artistService'] static hasMany = [events: Event] static constraints = { name(unique: true) lastMined(nullable: true) } def mine() ...

Close box triggers validation for non-modal form

I have two form classes inheriting from a common base. One of the forms is called modally and the other non-modally. Validation is required on focus changes but not when the form is cancelled. When the Close Box is selected on the modal form it closes properly without any validation being triggered on it's controls. When the Close Box is...

How to disable button on form submittion when form is valid

I am using client side validation. How can I disable submit button, then form is valid? <script src="/content/js/jquery.validate.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/Content/js/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/Content/js/MicrosoftMvcValidation.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <fi...

Windows forms Textbox validation

Please help me in this issue. I am working in windows forms using c#. i have a textbox called textBox1. I want to use validation like without entering anything in textBox1 the cursor should not move to next text field. ...

Asp.Net MVC 2.0 client side validation VS 2010

There seems to be some confusion, at least for myself, on client side validation using the data annotations framework and <% Html.EnableClientValidation(); %> Most of the examples I have seen like on haacked.com use the following scripts jquery.validate.js MicrosoftMvcJqueryValidation.js However, visual studio 2010 asp.net mvc 2 ...

non-latin email address validation

Now that ICann is allowing non-latin-character domain names, should I be concerned about e-mail validation? Currently, my sites are using php functions to ensure some alpha-numeric character set in each segment of an email address. Will these other character sets, such as Cyrillic, Arabic, and Chinese, pass validation? Are there recom...

Codeigniter validation help

I'm writing a system where users can generate/run queries on demand based on the values of 4 dropdown lists. The lists are dynamically generated based on a number of factors, but at this point, I'm having problems validating the input using codeigniter's built in validation classes. I think I have things out of order, and I've tried lo...

jquery date validation on multiple fields

I am attempting to use jquery to validate a date that is broken up into MM DD YYYY fields. <form name="dateform" id="dateform"> <input type="text" name="month"/> <input type="text" name="day"/> <input type="text" name="year"/> </form> I can only find examples that use a single field, which is not what I want. <form name="dateform" i...

ActiveRecord Validations for Models with has_many, belongs_to associations and STI

I have four models: User Award Badge GameWeek The associations are as follows: User has many awards. Award belongs to user. Badge has many awards. Award belongs to badge. User has many game_weeks. GameWeek belongs to user. GameWeek has many awards. Award belongs to game_week. Thus, user_id, badge_id and game_week_id are foreign...

DataAnnotations multiple property validation in MVC

I am struggling with DataAnnotations in MVC. I would like to validate a specific property, not the entire class but need to pass in another property value to validate against. I can't figure out how to pass the other property's value, ScheduleFlag, to the SignUpType Validation Attribute. public class Event { public bool Sc...

XS:Group causes Schema to fail validation

I have an XML document based on a Schema that uses the xs:group element to bunch elements together. The result is an entity where name, address and phone number are defined in a group. This fails Schema validation in MS (Visual Studio) as well as XERCES (oXygen XML editor) Is there a workaround? ...

Validations for a has_many/belongs_to relationship

I have a Recipe model which has_many Ingredients (which in turn belongs_to Recipe). I want Ingredient to be existent dependent on Recipe; an Ingredient should never exist without a Recipe. I'm trying to enforce the presence of a valid Recipe ID in the Ingredient. I've been doing this with a validates :recipe, :presence => true (Rails 3)...