validation

Required fields in flex.

Hi, I've got a question about flex. I have a form and the email is required. I googled this and found the found the following solution: <mx:FormItem label="Email" id="emailFormItem" width="100%" styleName="formEven" required="true"> <mx:TextInput id="emailTextInput" width="100%" text="{user.email}"/></mx:FormItem> The problem...

Hash validation periodic failures

We use hash validation to prevent cookie tampering. I've been tracking false positives -- cookies in the request that fail validation but show no signs of tampering -- and typically we see a handful of failures per hour. However, we have also seen our sites experience periods where every request fails the hash check. We're in an extended...

How to remove trailing whitespace in a database column?

I have an EJB 3 Entity bean that has a String property annotated with: @Column(unique=true). This value is set from a JSF page. Everything works fine as long as the user does not add whitespace add the end of the input field. In that case "someName" and "someName____" are treated not unique and are stored in the database. Is there a con...

send ajax request after successfull validation using jquery validate plugin

i am using jquery plugin validation for form validation i have simple question which i could't figure out. $().ready(function() { $("#contactForm").validate({ rules: { contactName: "Please Enter Full Name", contactBody: "Please Enter full message here", contactEmail: { required: true, email: true } } }); }); this v...

How do I validate a date in rails?

I want to be able to validate a date in my model in ruby on rails. However, the day, month and year values are already converted into an incorrect date by the time they reach my model. For example, if I enter February 31st 2009 in my view, when I do Model.new(params[:model]) in my controller, it converts it to March 3rd 2009. Which my m...

Validation problem with JSP and Eclipse

I have this simple JSP page in Eclipse and the first line in the file is: <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %> Eclipse however, puts a yellow warning icon before this line with the following tooltip message: Multiple annotations found at this line: - Line breakpoint:ind...

What is the benefit to validating email address at registration?

After user registers, i send an email with a guid link which user clicks to validate the registration. So it confirms the email exists, but how does that help fight spammers? Cant bots 'click' same link back to the site and validate registration just the same? Its late, maybe im missing something. ...

How should validation behave

In the very common scenario where you have a textbox, and some kind of validation rule which constraints the valid entries on that textbox. How should a failing validation affect the content of the textbox especially in the case when there originally was a valid value entered before the invalid. Example: Imagine a form where one can ent...

.NET two "forms" on a page and their validators

Hi, I have got a page that has 2 "forms" (What I mean by a form here is a Panel consisting of: textboxes, validators and a button). (I got 2 here because one of them is actually on the MasterPage, shown all the time) The problem is when you try to submit to one of the form, it will validate the other form, which of course is blank and...

ASP.NET - Separate validation of two forms on one page?

Hi all, I have what should be a fairly simple ASP.NET question, and one I thought I had found a workaround for in the past, but this time I'm having no end of bother trying to get a working solution for it. I have an ASP.NET page with a number of input controls and a series of form validators for them. I wish the page to have separate...

Free distributable XML Editor / Validator

Hi, I am looking for a FREE XML Editor/ Validator that I can distribute as part of my product. Does anyone familiar with such tool ? Thanks, Munish ...

What is the current best validation framework for asp.net apps?

To make sure its a DRY approach all validation logic should of course go in the business logic (model). How are validation messages presented to views, should be able to localize error messages Can you generate javascript from the validation framework. Compatibility with JQuery would be perfect Is the framework compatible with a DbC ap...

What's the best way to go about form validation in WPF (with databinding)?

I have several forms with many textboxes/comboboxes, and I would like to have the "Save" button disabled while at least one of the fields are invalid. I've been able to setup some custom ValidationRules, like so (textbox example shown): <Binding Path="Name"> <Binding.ValidationRules> <my:TextFieldNotEmpty/> </Binding.Val...

How to validate the clients database against my database schema?

Our clients use SQLServer/Oracle databases. Over the years, we've sent them many update scripts which they had to run manually. Most of the time, everything went smooth, but every now and then a script did not run completely to the end or had some errors in it (which weren't detected at the time of the upgrade). Also, sometimes even "sma...

Model and Validation Confusion - Looking for advice

I'm somewhat new to Python, Django, and I'd like some advice on how to layout the code I'd like to write. I have the model written that allows a file to be uploaded. In the models save method I'm checking if the file has a specific extension. If it has an XML extension I'm opening the file and grabbing some information from the file to ...

SelectedIndex = -1 with data bound Combo

Is there any equivalent to this when a combo is data bound? I've been through this hundreds of times before, but I'm having a brain freeze moment. ...

Why am I having trouble comparing lines from input in Perl?

I don't know what I could be doing wrong with this simple transaction, but it's not working: print "OK? (y or n)\n"; $ans = <>; print "\n"; if($ans eq "y"){print $ans;} I basically want to know how to test the user input. This little bit of code won't work for me. I'm just trying to print $ans if y is entered by the user. Any sugge...

Validate on text change in TextBox

I have implemented validation rules on a textBox in my WinForm and it works well. However it checks the validation only when I tab out of the field. I would like it to check as soon as anything is entered in the box and everytime the content changes. Also I'd like it to check validation as soon as the WinForm opens. I remember doing th...

Howto rewrite phone numbers in TSQL?

I have a beginners question in TSQL. We imported Excel Sheets into a SQL Server 2008. Too bad these excel files were not formatted the way they should be. We want a phone number to look like this: '012345678', no leading and trailing whitespace and no whitespace within. Even worse sometimes the number is encoded with a prefix '0123-2349...

Why does my jquery form validation not work for IE7? It works in FF, Opera, Safari, etc.

Hi All! I recently used jquery and the form validation plugin on a form we're testing at our community college: www.mchenry.edu/parentorientation Right off the bat, (if viewed with FF, Opera, Safari, etc.) when you click submit w/o entering any values, you get some nice error messages in the form, the intended effect. However, if yo...