PEAR HTML_Quickform validate() problem

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Hi,

 

I'm just trying my hand at using Pear and Quickform package tools. Unfortunatly it seems I've a major problem with the validation.

 

If for example I try this simple example from a tutorial :

"<?php

require_once "HTML/QuickForm.php";

 

$form = new HTML_QuickForm('frmTest', 'get');

$form->addElement('header', 'hdrQuickformtest',

'QuickForm Example 2');

$form->addElement('text', 'txtName',

'What is your name?');

$form->addElement('reset', 'btnClear',

'Clear');

$form->addElement('submit', 'btnSubmit',

'Submit');

 

if ($form->validate()) {

# If the form validates then freeze the data

$form->freeze();

}

$form->display();

?>

"

 

The form validate even if I don't submit any data. How comes ?

I'm working on WinXP or 2000, with Wamp, PHP5 and Quickform 3[1].2.4pl1.

Could that be a configuration problem ? What else could be wrong ??

Other "POST" forms, more complex ones too, also fail.

 

Thanks

 

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well... trying again to see if someone has some idea today ^^;

 

Actually it seems I have a lot of troubles with validation. Aside from the fact that it validates an empty form, I also observed this :

the validate() function is not done (neither for filter nor for clients rules) when I give a file name as target to the form. I can only do it if I call a function after the form.

 

So... How can I validate my form with all the rules and filters I asked before sending data and going to another page ??

 

Thanks

 

Hi,

 

I'm just trying my hand at using Pear and Quickform package tools. Unfortunatly it seems I've a major problem with the validation.

 

If for example I try this simple example from a tutorial :

"<?php

  require_once "HTML/QuickForm.php";

 

  $form = new HTML_QuickForm('frmTest', 'get');

  $form->addElement('header', 'hdrQuickformtest',

                    'QuickForm Example 2');

  $form->addElement('text',  'txtName',

                    'What is your name?');

  $form->addElement('reset',  'btnClear',

                    'Clear');

  $form->addElement('submit', 'btnSubmit',

                    'Submit');

 

  if ($form->validate()) {

      # If the form validates then freeze the data

      $form->freeze();

  }

  $form->display();

?>

"

 

The form validate even if I don't submit any data. How comes ?

I'm working on WinXP or 2000, with Wamp, PHP5 and Quickform 3[1].2.4pl1.

Could that be a configuration problem ? What else could be wrong ??

Other "POST" forms, more complex ones too,  also fail.

 

Thanks

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[nthomp]

You are telling the form to validate but you have not set any rules.

Here is an example using your code

 

"<?php

require_once "HTML/QuickForm.php";

 

$form = new HTML_QuickForm('frmTest', 'get');

$form->addElement('header', 'hdrQuickformtest',

'QuickForm Example 2');

$form->addElement('text', 'txtName',

'What is your name?');

//Validation Rules

$form->addRule('text', 'This box is required', required); //this would be server side vaildation

$form->addRule('text', "There are too many characters', 'maxlength', 12, 'client); //This example html_quickform would create the proper javascript to validate client side

 

$form->addElement('reset', 'btnClear',

'Clear');

$form->addElement('submit', 'btnSubmit',

'Submit');

 

if ($form->validate()) {

# If the form validates then freeze the data

$form->freeze();

}

$form->display();

?>