[ic] Email and &and profile check

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

Davor Ocelic wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:28:22 +0200
> Stefan Hornburg <racke at linuxia.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hello, 
>>
>> the &and is kind of counterintuitive when it comes to check the same
>> variable multiple times:
>>
>> email=email_only Please enter a valid email address.
>> &and
>> email=match email_verify Emails you entered do not match.
>> &and
>> email=unique userdb:email Unfortunately, an account with this email
>> address already exists.
>>
>> So if fail to enter an email address at all, I see all three error
>> messages at once.
> 
> Hm, why do you use &and? Couldn't it just work if you removed
> ands and had like:
> 
> email=email_only Please enter a valid email address.
> email=match email_verify Emails you entered do not match.
> email=unique userdb:email Unfortunately, an account with this email
> 
> IIRC, that way you'd only get errors from individual checks that
> failed.

Unfortunately that didn't work and the customer complained :'(.

With the email field filled, the email_verify field empty and the email
not in the database yet you get no error message.

Well,  I could easily whip up a custom order check to solve
this issue.

Regards
	Racke



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