Custom Module to use with 2.2.5

[Question Guy]

The one field that I want to use in a form is NUMBER, to restrict a field entry to a number with no other characters allowed.

I have looked at the Custom Module for sale but in the promotional text it does not specify that the Number type is included as a Form option.

I would buy this IF Number is one of the additional field options.

Can you clarify this?

Thank you!

[michatmaster7]

I may not be fully understanding your request. Do you have HTML experience? Or have you used FormTools at all yet? I'm pretty certain you can do that with server-side validation via the API.

http://docs.formtools.org/tutorials/php_validation/

Or are you saying you'd like to use the Form Builder module?

[Question Guy]

I may not be fully understanding your request. Do you have HTML experience? Or have you used FormTools at all yet? I'm pretty certain you can do that with server-side validation via the API.

http://docs.formtools.org/tutorials/php_validation/

Or are you saying you'd like to use the Form Builder module?

I am saying exactly as I state:

I want to create a form that uses NUMBER as the field type.

That is: INT
The standard issue of Form Tool does NOT OFFER "NUMBER" as a field type. The ability to make a field type an INT with specified length of digits.

The Custom Module states that it offers MORE FIELD TYPES than are available in the standard default Form Tool.

It is easy enough to create a Number field type if one were not using Form Tool but, say, phpmyadmin.

So, in looking at all of the information posted at Formtools.org about Custom Module it leaves out specifically saying that it offers the Option of choosing NUMBER -- INT as the field type.

As I state, IF the developer offers NUMBER as a field type option then I would BUY the Custom Module.

Obviously, if it offers NUMBER -- INT as a field type then it would also offer some validation rules for the form posting itself, which I would need.

I am still hoping the developer will respond and affirm or deny that NUMBER -- INT is a field type option in the Custom Module.

Right now the options for choosing field types is Hard Coded into the default product. Changing the database fields directly is possible but not recognized inside FormTools after the fact. It would not dynamically expand my form validation rules by dynamically detecting that a database field had been "forced" to be a Number type.

I had hoped to avoid making core changes to Form Tool by purchasing the Custom Module.

So, I hope I can find out from the actual facts regarding ALL field options available in the Custom Field Module.

[Question Guy]

It is Wednesday June 6 and I have gone over all of the documentation for the "Custom Fields" Module and in the images and text the ONE Field Type it does not indicate visually or in text documentation are NUMBER (INT) field types.

The Number field type is preferable for me over any VarChar types.

In my form I want to restrict the entries to Number values only. No possibility of text characters.

The only thing delaying me from buying this module is to find out and confirm if the Number (INT) field type is ALSO an Option for Creating New Custom fields in the Custom Fields Module.

[michatmaster7]

Please excuse my ignorance here, as I am obviously just that. I guess i don't understand the difference of choosing a field type within FormTools vs specifying the field type in HTML (for external forms) vs using validation to restrict the field entry to only numbers. Again, I'm not a FT employee, just trying to better understand your question.

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Ooo, in the documentation, it says this module is available in the DEMO. Have you tried that out yet to see if your question can be answered that way?

[Question Guy]

Hello michatmaster7, thanks for your interest and replies.

The three fields that would store numbers such as 1777456 I had wanted to specify as an INT type in the mysql table simply to keep them as pure integers with no alpha text characters or even commas allowed.

I had hoped that if the Custom Fields Module allowed integer types as a field type selection that it would have the Validation Rules included to automatically restrict the entries for these three fields to number and nothing but numbers.

Of course, as you say, the validation rules to pre-parse the user entries to warn them and thereby prevent them from entering anything other than pure integers are the most important part of the form.

It was my hope that a Custom Fields Module would have those rules already and that I would have access to them automatically if I could choose an INT field option instead of a varchar.

Ben has kindly replied to me in the past days and told me that the INT type is not available in this module.

So, I will have to modify the form code to apply to those three fields, with some sort of jquery parsing to make sure I get just integers without letters or commas.

Thanks for your interest!