Formit email and generic validation messages

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bobwal Reply #1, 12 years, 10 months ago

I’ve got a generic validation message working for my required form fields. The problem is the email validation also returns a ’required’ error message, so i get 2 messages. I only want the email to trigger an error if the address is invalid, is this possible?

[[!FormIt?
  &hooks=`spam,email`
  &validate=`name:required,email:email:required`    
]]

[[!+fi.validation_error_message:notempty=`Please complete the required fields`]]
[[!+fi.error.email]]

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bobwal Reply #2, 12 years, 10 months ago

I’ve got a work around so that will have to do, I’ve got another problem now though with checkboxes.

<input type="checkbox" name="int01" id="int01" value="1" [[+fi.int01:notempty=`checked="checked"`]] />
<input type="checkbox" name="int02" id="int02" value="1" [[+fi.int02:notempty=`checked="checked"`]] />

[[+int01:if=`[[+int01]]`:eq=`1`:then=`INT 01 Selected<br/>`:else=``]]
[[+int02:if=`[[+int02]]`:eq=`1`:then=`INT 02 Selected<br/>`:else=``]]

This works fine if the checkboxes are selected but if non are selected then the formit code above is output in the email.

Any ideas anyone?
Thanks

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cyclissmo Reply #3, 12 years, 9 months ago

Have you tried:

[[+int01:notempty=`INT 01 Selected<br/>`]]
[[+int02:notempty=`INT 02 Selected<br/>`]]

or..

[[!+int01:notempty=`INT 01 Selected<br/>`]]
[[!+int02:notempty=`INT 02 Selected<br/>`]]

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bobwal Reply #4, 12 years, 9 months ago

I’ve been off this for a while but your post works cyclissmo, many thanks!

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bobwal Reply #5, 12 years, 9 months ago

Just bumping to see if anyone has any ideas on the initial post, thanks

Quote from: rf9 at Jul 01, 2011, 03:33 PM

I’ve got a generic validation message working for my required form fields. The problem is the email validation also returns a ’required’ error message, so i get 2 messages. I only want the email to trigger an error if the address is invalid, is this possible?
[[!FormIt?
  &hooks=`spam,email`
  &validate=`name:required,email:email:required`    
]]

[[!+fi.validation_error_message:notempty=`Please complete the required fields`]]
[[!+fi.error.email]]

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cyclissmo Reply #6, 12 years, 9 months ago

You can always just remove the [tt]:required[/tt] validator from the email field, but that will allow empty emails to pass. I don’t think you want that.

AFAIK the proper way to approach this is to create a snippet to validate the email according to your criteria, and then register it as a custom validator.

The only other alternative that I can think of is commenting out the first statement in the [tt]email()[/tt] method in [tt]fivalidator.class.php[/tt]. That should stop empty emails from passing through the [tt]:email[/tt] validator. Only problems is, that change will ’undo’ when you update the package.

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bobwal Reply #7, 12 years, 9 months ago

Thanks again cyclissmo, yeah I briefly looked at using a custom validator. I guess the snippet would contain some kind of regex to validate the email. I did have a look at the fivalidator.class.php to see if I could use the code from there but it seems like a lot of work for a small non critical feature. Maybe when I get some time I can take a look.

Thanks for the help.

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