minLength=^2^ wont work until set at 4 or more

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ianman Reply #1, 11 years, 1 month ago

I have a weird problem, if I set the minLength at 3 or more the form submits no problem even if just one character is entered. However as soon as its set at 4 or above it works fine, I am using the most recent formit snippet the required field validation works a treat wondered if anyone has any clues what the issue might be.

The following is called from a chunk and this is everything it contains

 [[!+fi.validation_error_message]]
[[+errors]]
   [[!FormIt?
             &hooks=`email`
             &emailTpl=`sentEmailTpl`
             &emailSubject=`Message from Website`
             &emailTo=`[email protected]`
             &validate=`contact_name:required:minLength=^2^,
	      contact_email:email:required,
	      contact_message:required:stripTags` 
           ]]
       
         

	<div id="contact-area">
			
			<form method="post" action="[[~[[*id]]]]">
                         [[!+fi.error.contact_name]]
		<label for="contact_name">Name </label>              
<input id="contact_name" name="contact_name" size="30" class="required" minlength="2" value="[[!+fi.contact_name]] " />
	
				<label for="contact_email">E-Mail </label><em>(required)</em><br />
                                [[!+fi.error.contact_email]]
<input id="contact_email" name="contact_email" size="30"  class="required email" value="[[!+fi.contact_email]]" />
				
				<label for="contact_message">Your comment </label><em>(required)</em><br />
                                [[!+fi.error.contact_message]]
<textarea id="contact_message" name="contact_message" cols="70" rows="7" class="required">[[!+fi.contact_message]]</textarea>

				<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" class="submit-button" />
			</form>
			
			
		
		</div>

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sottwell Reply #2, 11 years, 1 month ago

I wonder if this could have anything to do with using mb_string functions?

$v = $this->config['use_multibyte'] ? mb_strlen($value,$this->config['encoding']) : strlen($value);

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ianman Reply #3, 11 years, 1 month ago

Quote from: sottwell at Mar 09, 2013, 02:44 AM

I wonder if this could have anything to do with using mb_string functions?
$v = $this->config['use_multibyte'] ? mb_strlen($value,$this->config['encoding']) : strlen($value);

It may well be that its on a basic shared cpanel hosting so no access to php.ini anyway I have turned on the math hook so the minLength is not going to make a lot of difference anyway in the grand scheme of things.

Many thanks

Ian