Hi,

I have a form on a website I'm doing which links to a php file and sends the details to an email address. The client wants validation on the form, and although I validate in Dreamweaver, the form 'sends' even if the fields aren't filled in. Can anybody let me know what's going wrong? The website is www.ttpcc.org.uk and the form is on the home page.

many thanks in advance

Alex

I was searching for the same thing and found this link:

gnwda.org/tutorials/coding/forms.htm

I've never tried it myself but I think it's just saying to setup a hidden field with the values being the names of whatever fields you are requiring:

• required
Allows you to require that certain fields be filled in before the user can successfully submit the form. Put the names of all mandatory fields into this input tag (the example below requires the person's name and email address). Thus, if the required fields are left empty, the user will be notified of what they need to fill in and will be given a link back to the form.

<input type=hidden name="required" value="realname,email">


Let me know if this works.

brando



DMX | PHP | SQL

Here's a way to require with Javascript:

javascript.internet.com/forms/basic-validation.html

DMX | PHP | SQL

I had the same problem and what i did was to "combine" php and javascript together.

For e.g.

I checked if any of the fields was empty by doing this
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>
if ($POST[fieldname]==""
{
$text="You didn't fill fieldname";
}

$java="alert('You have not selected a $item yet'); return(false)"; </font id=code></pre id=code>

then i added this code to my submit button


<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code> input type="submit" name="btnsubmit" value="Submit" accesskey="s" onclick="&lt;?=$java?&gt;" /&gt;
</font id=code></pre id=code>
when you click and you page detects that there's a problem field empty it will display the error.
Hope it helps. Ders more to it but try the basic.