required fields messages

Hi

At the moment my form has several required fields, and as the user misses one out a little line of text appears under the box to tell them off.

When I built forms by hand I used to use php so that no errors come up until after the submit button has been pressed. I don't really want to re-write a load of code, if this lovely component can do it for me.

Is there a way to get the form to pop up these error messages only when the user hits the submit button?

Thanks

E

Hi maxelcat,

I don't think so - there may be an option but if so I don't remember it.

You can add your PHP to do server-side validation in the box on the Validation tab if you prefer.

Bob

Hi, look at components/com_chronocontact/chronocontact.html.php and find:

immediate : true

change it to

immediate : false

Cheers
Max

Hi

thanks for the replies. I have changed immediate : false as suggested.

And its closer to what I want. However, it only shows 1 error at a time, so if the user made 2 mistakes only the first one is shown at the first submit. - is there a way to get all the errors in one go?

thanks again

E

I don't think this can be done without some hack to the JS code of the validation file!

Cheers
Max

ok - thanks

Hi maxelcat,

Try adding stopOnFirst : false to the same options list

Bob

Hi

Thanks again for the reply

I added stopOnFirst : false as suggested, but it didn't seem to do what I wanted

Here's where I added it :

var valid = new Validation('<?php echo "ChronoContact_".$rows[0]->name; ?>', {immediate : false, stopOnFirst : false,  useTitles : true, onFormValidate : formCallback});

was that correct?

Thanks

E

Hi Maxelcat,

The next step is for you to get FireFox with the Firebug extension and debug the JavaScript.

Bob

OK

thanks for your help

E