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FORM : Required fields

  • 12-02-2006 09:11PM
    #1
    MartMax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭


    This gives me an headache. I tried this script on IE and Firefox, it works except on Firefox it still sends out the form action. I am working on a credit card payment page, so on Firefox it does give the user warning to field the required fill but once click OK, it sends out the data.
    <HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Required Fields</TITLE>
<SCRIPT>
function validate() {
mNv=mainform.Name.value;
if (mNv=='') {
alert('Your name is a required field. Please try again.');
event.returnValue=false;
}
if (!(mainform.Sex[0].checked || mainform.Sex[1].checked)) {
alert('Your sex is a required field. Please try again.');
event.returnValue=false;
}
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM NAME="mainform" ACTION="http://yourdomainhere/cgi-bin/post-query" METHOD="post" onsubmit="validate();">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Name" >Please enter your name (required)
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="RADIO" NAME="Sex" VALUE="Male">Male
<INPUT TYPE="RADIO" NAME="Sex" VALUE="Female">Female
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT">
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

    am wondering if anyone has better script to do this?


Comments

  • #2
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Well you could just hand off that task to the form handler script... which is probably better anyway since if someone is determined enough to bypass these 'required fields' then a bit of javascript isn't going to stop them.
    This is assuming you've actually got access to it though.


  • #3
    MartMax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭MartMax


    i'm basically creating a form that collect credit card details to be passed to my merchant gateway. i only need a simple script that ensure all required data is sent to the server. i don't need bullet proof script, a SSL cert is already in place, not that i say it's gonna be 100% secured transmission.

    SORTED, found another working script.
    <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function validateForm() {
 var name = document.myForm.username.value;
 var email = document.myForm.email.value;
 if (name == "") {
   alert("Please fill in your name.");
   return false;
 }
 if (email == "") {
   alert("Please fill in your email address.");
   return false;
 }
 return true;
}
//-->
</script>
<form action="blah.cgi" name="myForm" method="post"
     onSubmit="return validateForm();">
Your name: <input type="text" name="username"> *<br>
Email address: <input type="text" name="email"> *<br>
Phone Number: <input type="text" name="phone"><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
<p>(* indicates a required field)</p>


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