[ic] Validating form HOWTO

Philip S. Hempel interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Mon Nov 25 23:25:02 2002


Jeff Dafoe wrote:

>>Here's a quick summary on how to do a validating form in IC 4.8.6
>>There are 2 pages used, feedback.html and feedback2.html
>>    
>>
>
>    OK, maybe we haven't completely solved the validation issue.  When
>testing our newly-created page, validation failure causes all form fields to
>revert back to their previous values.  So if all the fields were blank prior
>to validation, and the user leaves one required field blank, when the page
>reloads all the fields are blank again.
>    Does this hold true on your system as well?  I have some pretty
>aggressive anti-caching settings on my IC catalog here and I am not certain
>that isn't the cause.
>
>
>Jeff
>  
>
I have a crude feedback form I kinda stole from the list and modded for 
myself.
It is not perfect but it does do most of what I want, I have yet to get 
it to
place the comments into the database like I would want but here is where
you can get it
http://ns.linuxhardcore.com/ic/

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