Validation help for a NooB (JS?)

eris667 · Feb 25th, 2017, 12:13 PM

I have created a form, and it is working great!
The only thing I would like to do is prevent duplicate text box entries for a certain field (empire_name)

The form is FormBuilder type, Published

For what I am reading I need to use the JS validation method?
https://docs.formtools.org/userdoc/field...eld_dialog
https://docs.formtools.org/tutorials/js_validation/

How / Where do I make the changes?
I seem to be missing something, probably simple....

Thanks!

Mike

eris667 · Mar 4th, 2017, 8:06 PM

Bump?
Still trying to figure this out...

eris667 · May 1st, 2017, 1:02 PM

Bump?

nelsondcosta · Aug 23rd, 2017, 7:19 AM

baaah tool its great but support its very hard :S
it should be a premium support Tongue

ocbroadband · (This post was last modified: Nov 2nd, 2017, 6:54 PM by ocbroadband.)

(May 1st, 2017, 1:02 PM)eris667 Wrote: Bump?

Is this a internal or external form. If external, can you paste it here? Remove any sensitive info of course.

Here's a snippet for a single field and what is required for a external form. All the below is in a single .php file, but pruned to just show the minimum fields.

Registration Page

PHP Code:
<?php
require_once("/xxx/xxx/formtool/global/api/api.php");
$fields = ft_api_init_form_page(2);

// validation time!
$errors = array();
if (isset($_POST['sbmt']))
     {
    $rules = array();
     $rules[] = "required,firstname,Please enter your first name.";
     $rules[] = "letters_only,firstname,Please only use letters for your first name. *-No spaces/numbers/etc.";
     $errors = validate_fields($_POST, $rules);
    
// no errors - great! Now we process the page. The ft_api_process_form does
// the job of both updating the database and redirecting to the next page
    if (empty($errors))
         {
        $params = array(
            "submit_button" => "sbmt",
             "next_page" => "https://www.xxxx.com/wp/thank-you/",
             "form_data" => $_POST,
             "finalize" => true
            );
         ft_api_process_form($params);
         } 
// it failed validation. Update $fields with the latest contents of the form data
    else
         {
        $fields = array_merge($_SESSION["form_tools_form"], $_POST);
         } 
    } 
?>


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Registration Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="registration.css">
</head>
<body>

<?php
// if $errors is not empty, the form must have failed one or more validation
// tests. Loop through each and display them on the page for the user
if (!empty($errors))
     {
    echo "<div class='error'>Please fix the following errors:\n<ul>";
     foreach ($errors as $error)
     echo "<li>$error</li>\n";
     echo "</ul></div>";
    } 
?>

<!-- Start of FORM -->
<div align="center">
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]?>" method="POST">
  <table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="800">
    <tbody>
      <tr align="center">
        <td colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top"> <h2>HEADER 2</h2></td>
      </tr>
      <tr align="center">
        <td rowspan="1" colspan="2" valign="top" width="618"><BIG><BIG><B>TITLE<br>
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="right" valign="top" width="35%">First Name<br>
        </td>
        <td valign="top" width="618"><input maxlength="30" size="30" type="text" name="firstname" value="<?=@$fields["firstname"]?>" /> *-Required</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top">
        <div align="center">Please confirm everything is correct before you submit!<br><input name="sbmt" value="Submit/Validate Form" type="submit"> </div>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>
</form>
</div>
<!-- End of FORM -->
</body>
</html> 

You'll have to read through the options for the different field types, but the above should give you a base page to start with. Hopefully, I didn't bork anything up by removing too much for this example.

Lyle

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