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Posted by Jeff North on 10/27/07 02:45
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:47:42 +0200, in comp.lang.php Gustaf
<gustafl@algonet.se>
<mZednQQ7tZOnh7_aRVnyjgA@giganews.com> wrote:
>| I've been working on a membership form for a while, and find it very
>| tedious to get an acceptable level of form validation. A web search for
>| solutions revealed some home-brewed solutions, such as these:
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>| http://simonwillison.net/2003/Jun/17/theHolyGrail/
>| http://samuelsjoberg.com/archive/2004/11/form-validation-on-client-and-server
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>| Quoting from the first link, this is my idea of what form validation is
>| like from the user's perspective:
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>| 1. The form is displayed; you fill it in.
>| 2. You submit the form to the server.
>| 3. If you missed something out or provided invalid input, the form is
>| redisplayed pre-filled with the valid data you already entered.
>| 4. The redisplayed form tells you what you got wrong. It also flags
>| the fields that were incorrect.
>| 5. Loop until you fill the form in correctly.
>|
>| In my membership form, I've found this to be complicated, error-prone
>| and tedious if coded by hand in PHP. Plus, I find that very little of
>| the code that comes out of it can be reused. There must be a better way...
Have you looked at Pear::QuickForms ?
http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm2
http://www.midnighthax.com/smarty-guide.php
>| I'm all for coding by hand, but in this case, the most productive
>| environment I can imagine would be a WYSIWYG IDE environment, where you
>| draw the form and pick most properties from drop-down lists. The IDE
>| would then generate all the code for you, and offer to FTP it to the
>| right location. I believe this is what Microsoft wanted to accomplish
>| with Web Forms in ASP.NET. The big drawback there (correct me if I'm
>| wrong) is that ASP.NET forms only work on IIS servers and IE clients. Is
>| there anything like ASP.NET Web forms, but less MS-centric, and using
>| PHP code? If not, what's the next best solution?
>|
>| Many thanks in advance.
>|
>| Gustaf
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