Required empty field

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ConseilsWeb Reply #1, 17 years, 2 months ago

Hello everyone,

I’m trying to build a form with a text field that must stay empty for the form validation to pass. It’s a simple spam bot prevention mechanism, I just hide the field with CSS and it stops the majority of the spam bots.

I haven’t been able to tell eForm to do that. I tried this config for the field:

eform="Bot Death:string:0:#EVAL empty($value)"

Now I just read that #EVAL is depecrated, so I’m wondering if anyone knows what would be the proper way to handle this?

Olivier Deland
Montreal, Canada - Web Developer

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sottwell Reply #2, 17 years, 2 months ago

I use an eForm event, eformOnValidate. I have this snippet checkField

<?php
function checkField(&$fields,&$vMsg,&$rMsg) {
    if(!empty($fields['Last__Name'])) {
        return false;
    } else {
    return true;
    }
}
?>

and this eForm snippet call

[!checkField!]
[!eForm? &formid=`ContactForm` &tpl=`ContactForm` &report=`ContactReport` &subject=`sottwell.com Contact` &thankyou=`ThankYou` &replyto=`email` &debug=`1` &eformOnBeforeMailSent=`getServer` &eformOnValidate=`checkField`!]

and this in my chunk tpl for the form

<input type="text" name="Last__Name" id="LastName" size=30 autocomplete="off" eform="LastName::0" />

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ConseilsWeb Reply #3, 17 years, 2 months ago

Working perfectly!

Thank you so much for this Ma’am!

Olivier Deland
Montreal, Canada - Web Developer