validation

invalid html (href target tag)

I've curious how this should be properly done. I ran a page im working on through the w3 html validateor and I got one error message Line 47, Column 54: Attribute "target" exists, but can not be used for this element.** <ul><li><a href="./jobops/1000 Design PM.pdf" target="blank">1000 Design PM</a></li> You have used the attribute ...

I know I'm doing validation wrong. Please persuade me to stop :)

First let me explain how I currently handle validation, say, for an IPv4 address: public struct IPv4Address { private string value; private IPv4Address(string value) { this.value = value; } private static IPv4Address CheckSyntax(string value) { // If everything's fine... return new IPv4Address(v...

jQuery Validation -- Not validating

I am building my first ASP.net MVC application (not my first jQuery & jQuery Validation plugin application), and I am having a terrible time performing the client side validation with the validation plugin. Does anyone know if there is a problem using the plugin with jQuery-1.3.2.min that comes with VS 2008? My code is as follows: v...

Can TDD be a valid alternative to overkill data validation?

Consider these two data validation scenarios: Check everything everywhere Make sure that every method that takes one or more arguments actually checks them to ensure that they're syntactically valid. Pros Very fine check granularity. If the code that is being written is for some kind of library we make sure to limit the damage that ...

Refresh JSF before validation

Hi, I am using JSF validation to simply check that the length of a field is 15, if not an error message is shown. My issue with this approach is that user enters a number which is the correct length and clicks a button and some information is displayed about it. The second time when the user enters a number whose length is <15 then the ...

PHP validate youtube URL

Hi all Could anyone kindly tell me how to validate the YOUTUBE URL. using PHP Example: For this URL how can we Validate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeppLPQtihA Thanks in Advance.. FEro ...

Validate ViewModel upon button click.

I have a ViewModel that implements IDataErrorInfo and a master-detail-view. How can I trigger the vaildation of the current ViewModel item when the user hits the save button in the detail view and not earlier? ...

i18n Validations

Think Global, Act Local That's what they tell you, however during all my time as I developer I've always seen big companies like Google, Microsoft, Oracle and so do validations in a localized manner: they know which country I'm from so they will try to validate my phone number, postal code and other details such as bank account numb...

Validating SQL query with PHP

The validation seems to fail for some reason. By the validation, I mean the "if ($result)" -part. How can I correctly validate SQL-query? $dbconn = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=heoa user=heoa password=123"); $email = $_POST['login']['email']; $result = pg_query_params( $dbconn, 'SELECT user_id ...

getting the user from a admin validation class

Hello, I am trying to control admin item entry where non-super user accounts can't save a ChannelStatus model input that has a date attribute which is older than 2 days. I need to get the user so that I can check if the request is a reqular or a super user but couldn't achieve this. I have already tried "request.user.is_superuser", "use...

Checkbox validation for multiselection

i need to restrict users selecting check boxes multiple times, only one check box should be seleted in my asp.net form , i am not using a checkbox list Please help ...

space bar validation in flash

Hi I got a form for the first name and last name in my flash website For the two fields I defined them as not null but when you just click the spacebar and click on submit its taking it Can some one please help me how do I write the validation for not taking space bar as an Input and and the field should not be empty (Note: I am us...

Validating multiple text boxes with jquery

If I have multiple textboxes which have different ID's but all id's start with 'pics' preceeded by a number. so: textbox1 id = 'pics1' value='test1' textbox2 id = 'pics2' value='test2' textbox3 id = 'pics3' value='test1' ... submit I want to do some validation that when the user clicks submit..there are no two values in the textbox...

Logic behind validating form info with PHP

Im trying my first form validation with PHP. I need some guidance with the logic. I have purchase.php (which has the form) and review-purchase.php(which sets SESSION variables and displays the user data inputted) If any of the fields fail validation I don't want the user to get to review-purchase.php Should I be sending the user to t...

Why does this simple email address validation not work for me?

Here is my code; I got the reg ex from a PHP book. function is_email($email) { // Checks for proper email format if (! preg_match( '/^[A-Za-z0-9!#$%&\'*+-/=?^_`{|}~]+@[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[AZa-z0-9-]+)+[A-Za-z]$/', $email)) { return false; } else { return true; } } Now to test to see if the email is valid I am using: if (is_email(...

How to show which sub-regex failed to match?

Hello, I am using regular expressions to validate user input. The following code collects a matches accessible with theMatch.Groups["identifier"]. How can i get a list of sub-strings that did not match in each group? #region Using directives using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Text.RegularExp...

Range validation

Suppose i ve a table like create table { id numeric(5,3), code varchar(10) } i ve two text box in my form for tha two field suppose if i type 1234578 in the first text box the error has been thrown in asp.net because i crossed limit how to validate in javascript or some otherways for that particular range validation thank u ...

How to identify in which record the validation failed using WCF and EntLib Validation Block?

Problem: I have a WCF Webservice which can be used by customers to upload multiple datarecords. To validate the data I use Enterprise Library Validation Block. The records can be nested several layers deep. Question: How to identify in which record the validation failed? Example: Consider the following datastructure. For each Contin...

Rails model validation on create and update only

If I want to have validation only on create, then I can do validates_presence_of :password, :on => :create but how do I say on create and update? I tried this but didn't work. validates_presence_of :password, :on => [ :create, :update ] Do I have to define the validation two times? ...

Combining validation errors in Rails

For example, if I have a user with an email address that needs validating on presense and format: validates_presence_of :email_address, :message => "can't be blank" validates_format_of :email_address, :with => /^([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})$/i If nothing is entered, how can I prevent both error messages appearing? I kn...