Posted by Jon Slaughter on 05/22/07 12:00

"Toby A Inkster" <usenet200703@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ikgai4-s96.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk...
> Jon Slaughter wrote:
>
>> What I mean is, say I want to insert a div for absolute positioning
>> of some element inside a form... can I do that with your class easily?
>
> Not yet, no. It wraps a good few elements round each form control by
> itself though, most of which have classes and IDs, so can be styled as
> required. The comment forms on my website are one example.
>
>> Your set_validity_check seems to be very similar to what I was doing
>> except I didnt' call it validation and mine is more primitive. Mine
>> simply
>> executes code and that code can be anything. It is attached to a form(or
>> could be attached to the page) and is executed when the form is
>> processed.
>> In this way one can do anything they want when a form is submitted rather
>> than just validate data... although I suspect that your function is not
>> that restrictive either?
>
> Mine is entirely intended for data validation. You can't reasonably do
> much more with it because it only operates on a single field -- not the
> whole form.
>
> When the form has been submitted you call:
>
> $ok = $form->accept_submission() && $form->validate();
>
> then the DBF_Form object will read submitted data and validate each field
> in turn. Then you can call:
>
> $vals = $form->get_values();
>
> which returns an array of validated values, and you can do with that what
> you want (e-mail it, store it in a database, etc).
>
> --


If you have multiple forms how do you distinguish from them?

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