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<form name="htmlform" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="base_submit_form.php" onsubmit="return validateForm(this);"
 onreset="return confirm('Are you sure that you want to reset this form?');">


<label for="submit_username">Username (max length 15): </label>
<input  type="text" name="submit_username" maxlength="15" size="30"><br />
<br />
Number of Each Rooms:<br />
<input  type="number" name="livingrooms" min="0" max="10" maxlength="2" size="1">Living Rooms<br />
<input  type="number" name="diningrooms" min="0" max="10" maxlength="2" size="1">Dining Rooms<br />
<input  type="number" name="kitchens" min="0" max="10" maxlength="2" size="1">Kitchens<br />
<input  type="number" name="bedrooms" min="0" max="10" maxlength="2" size="1">Bedrooms<br />


<input type="submit" value="Submit">&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="reset" value="Reset!">
</form>
<script type='text/javascript'>
function validateForm(formElement) {
  /* validate username */
  var username = formElement.elements['submit_username'];
  if( username.value == "" ) {
    alert( "Please Enter a Username." );
    username.focus();
    return false;
  }
  /* validate number of rooms */
  var rooms = ['livingrooms','diningrooms','kitchens','bedrooms']; 
  var roomElements = formElement.elements;
  var total = 0;
  for (var r=0,rl=rooms.length;r<rl;r++) {
    total += +roomElements[rooms[r]].value;
  }
  if (total>=0 && total<=12) {
    return true;
  } else {
    alert('Total amount of rooms must be between 0 and 12'); 
    return false;
  }
}
</script>

Some notes about the code you already had:

• You misspelled your bedrooms input field (you had 'beedrooms' not 'bedrooms').  Well I assume that's a typo so I changed it
• You were passing a reference this to your function but weren't actually making use of it, so I altered your username logic to use it
• Your username input field had a required attribute in it.  This is a built-in way to make sure the input field is not empty and is fine..except that you turn around and attempt to validate it in your function.  Well when you have both, your custom error msg alert will never execute, because the required attribute will be evaluated first.  So the only way it will even make it to your function is if it's already filled out, so your condition for username will never evaluate true.  So to make a long story short, pick one or the other.  I updated the code to remove the required attribute under the assumption that you wanted a custom validation and error msg.

yes, it's definitely the cockies.

Dragosvr92 I think your frustration is directed at the wrong people.  We are not developers for IPB, we simply use their product, same as thousands of other sites out there.  We have no more leverage or weight in asking for a change than you or anybody else.  You may think that we do if we show up as "the phpreaks community" vs "me, an individual" but we don't.  We've tried.  We've even had some members of our staff work as members of their staff, a "person on the inside" if you will, and even then they had little to no more leverage/weight in bringing up issues.  Their core dev team does their thing and that's pretty much the end of it.  

So if you want your suggestion considered or implemented, march yourself over to the IPB community and post your thoughts there.  Good luck with that endeavor, given what I just said, but you are certainly barking up the wrong tree arguing with us about it. 

sarchasm ftw

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