[Phptest-users] Fwd: form validation

[Brandon Tallent]

I haven't tested this yet, but it looks nice for those
who are interested.

> From: "kathleen kihmm" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: form validation
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:15:38 -1000
> 
> Here is the form validation javascript that I
> implemented.
> Thanks, for the great program.
> 
> In test.php modify:
> 
> echo "<form onSubmit=\"return validate(this);\"
> method=\"post\" 
> name=\"test\" action=\"$PHP_SELF\">\n";
> 
> 
> // form validation function for PHPTest
> // by Kathleen Kihmm
> function validate(form)
> {
>   var msg = "";
>   var answered = "false";
>   var q_num = 1;
>   var name;
> 
>   // start the name equal to first element
>   name = form.elements[0].name;
> 
>   // iterate through all elements except for
>   // last two:  submit and test_id elements
>   for (var y = 0; y < form.length -2; y++) {
>     // this loop interates through all the choices
> with the same name
>     while(form.elements[y].name == name
>           && form.elements[y].type == "radio"){
>       if (form.elements[y].type == "radio"
>           && form.elements[y].checked == true)
>         answered = "true";
>       y++;
>     }
> 
>     if (answered  == "false")
>       msg = msg + "Question number " + q_num + " is
> blank.\n";
> 
>     // Reset answered to false
>     // In the case where checked was true
>     // set name to current iteration.
>     answered = "false";
>     name = form.elements[y].name;
> 
>     // decrement counter so the new element name
>     // matches with the first occurance
>     y = y-1;
> 
>     // increment question number
>     q_num++;
>   }
> 
>   // Alert the user if incomplete questions are
> present.
>   // If there is no message return true--form is
> submitted.
>   if (msg > "") {
>     alert("The following questions(s) were
> incomplete:\n\n"
>            + msg + "\n\n Please complete the
> questions and submit again.")
>     return false;
>   }
>   else
>     return true;
> }
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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