validation

FCKEditor breaking HTML forms

I'm in the process of reproducing some standalone HTML forms as pages in a CMS that uses FCKEditor by simply copying and pasting the relevant code into the editor. But when I save and view the page, the HTML has been changed and the tag has been moved up to just below the open tag -- and not at the bottom of the form. This obviously r...

Validating output from one or more document.write

I have a form that accepts javascript which allows the use of document.write() and I want to validate the output of the javascript which may look like this: var a = 'book1'; var b = 2; document.write("</scr"+"ipt>"); document.write("<scr"+"ipt type='text/javascript'src='http://www.example.com/loader.js?mydoc="+a+"&amp;page="+b+"'&gt;")...

Web-based licensing solution for a desktop .NET product

Hi, Please advise, is there any web-based licensing solution, where I can generate registration codes, and validate them in the software by connecting to my licensing server? Thank you. ...

Asp.Net MVC Data Annotations. How to get client side validation on 2 properties being equal

How do you get client side validation on two properties such as the classic password confirm password scenario. I'm using a metadata class based on EF mapping to my DB table, heres the code. The commented out attributes on my class will get me server side validation but not client side. [MetadataType(typeof(MemberMD))] public partial ...

Validating collection elements in WPF

I would like to know how people are going about validating collections in WPF. Lets say for example that I have an observable collection of ViewModels that I am binding to the items source of a grid, and the user can add new rows to the grid and needs to fill them. First of all I need to validate on each row to ensure that required fiel...

Locale based validation

Hi , My project have two main requirements 1) Different set of rules applied to same object at insertion and while updating it. 2) Different validation rules based on locale. In ADDRESS object STATE field requires different validation rules For USA: STATE cannot be NULL. For everywhere else it can be NULL. For first requirement i am...

Which validation framework is better?

Does anyone have any recommendations for either of these validation ASP.Net MVC Validation frameworks? xVal: http://xval.codeplex.com/ FluentValidation: http://fluentvalidation.codeplex.com/documentation NHibernate.Validator DataAnnotations by the way: my project use sharp-architecture ...

Conditional validation

Hi, I have an ASP.NET web app (with C#). In it I have a form with several fields and validators. For one of the validators I only need to validate when: a certain textbox is empty and a certain record does not exist in the database (this is already handled). I know I can't enable/disable the validator on page_load because something...

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...

DataAnnotations - Disallow Numbers, or only allow given strings

Is it possible to use ASP.NET MVC 2's DataAnnotations to only allow characters (no number), or even provide a whitelist of allowed strings? Example? ...

WPF: Validation with IDataErrorInfo and low reuseability with similar validation rules

Hello, I have a pupil entity implementing IDataErrorInfo: Now the exact same rules I want to validate against the Lastname, Gender, Street, City, Postal and Phone. Do I really have to repeat all that ? Using ValidationRule class would be better but then I can not handle disabling/enabling buttons via ICommand. ... #region Valida...

Asp.net mvc2: How to add validation rules - A number field is not required but has range limitation?

Asp.net mvc2: How to add validation rules - A number field is not required but has range limitation? ...

Why 10675199.02:48:05.4775807 TimeSpan Maximum for CompilationSection?

I was looking at the metadata for System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection, and noticed the following attribute on the TimeSpan BatchTimeout property: [TimeSpanValidator(MinValueString = "00:00:00", MaxValueString = "10675199.02:48:05.4775807")] Could someone explain why this is the allowed max value? TimeSpan itself has an upper...

How to validate an optional empty textbox, Is the data valid or not - its optional... -

Today I asked myself how can I handle user input if the user have not to enter it... A firstname and lastname is all he must enter. The adress he needs not to fill out. Now I have to decide, is the missing data a user mistake or didn`t the user want to enter data? How can I deal with such a scenario? ...

jQuery form check - iframe content check empty

Please check out the comment field at the bottom on http://tinyurl.com/3xow97t in Firefox - it works pretty well - the red warning gets added if empty and the submit gets disabled - once there is text inside, the submit gets re-enabled. the problem i have now, it does not work in IE. i really hope somebody can help. the iframe conte...

File input validation

You have a web page with a form that has an input field of type file. You have another web page that expects the data from the first page. In the second page you need to check whether a file has been sent. How do you do that? I've been using the following statement but I'm not sure about it: $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"] == "" ...

Set Validation Tooltip in CodeBehind instead of XAML

I would like to know how to translate the following code to codebehind instead of XAML: <Style.Triggers> <Trigger Property="Validation.HasError" Value="true"> <Setter Property="ToolTip" Value="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=(Validation.Errors)[0].ErrorContent}"/> </Trigger> </Styl...

Custom login in Django

Django newbie here. I wrote simplified login form which takes email and password. It works great if both email and password are supplied, but if either is missing i get KeyError exception. According to django documentation this should never happen: By default, each Field class assumes the value is required, so if you pass an empty v...

Validate decimal number in (known) national format

PHP has many built-in functions to validate numbers but they all expect input in computer format: 1234.56. I need to validate stuff like 1,234.56 (English) or 1.234,56 (Spanish), together with some typical attributes (accepted range, max number of decimals, etc.). I started writing my own function but I soon got lost. It's easy to read ...

How to validate that a specific ammount of checkboxes are checked in PHP

I have to validate that maximum 3 checkboxes are clicked. There are 11. How could I do this efficiently and without testing every possible situation? ...