Posted by Mark on 07/03/06 19:26

Andy Hassall wrote:
> On 3 Jul 2006 11:59:27 -0700, "Mark" <mnbayazit@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >so after much searching, and thinking, and pondering and planning, i
> >came up with this most amazing thing, and then realized one major flaw
> >which i was hoping you guys might help me overcome.
> >
> >it creates a pretty little form, with labels and names and id's for
> >styling to your heart's content, and better yet, you can add a "minimum
> >length" parameter, and when you hit submit it'll spit out a little
> >error if you screwed something up.
> >
> >sample viewable here: http://xailus.com/files/form_sample.gif
> >
> >now this is very nice and all, but it occured to me that if a user does
> >actually manage to fill in a simple form.. it won't be until after the
> >form re-rendered that I will be able to determine that there were no
> >errors, since it does the error checking and form-creation at the same
> >time.
> >
> >any ideas how I might fix this problem without overcomplicating my
> >handy-dandy system?
>
> You might want to look at the approach taken by HTML_QuickForm:
>
> http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.html.html-quickform.tutorial.php
>
> --
> Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk
> http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space :: disk and FTP usage analysis tool

Wish I could find an example of how it looks printed out.
Looks too bloated though... I don't need all that junk.

Just need some basic checking.

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