vAlidasi Form

1.Include gen_validatorv2.js in your html file just before closing the HEAD tag

<script language="JavaScript" src="gen_validatorv2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

2. Just after defining your form, Create a form validator object passing the name of the form

<FORM name='myform' action="">
<!----Your input fields go here -->
</FORM>
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
var frmvalidator = new Validator("myform");
....

3. Now add the validations required

frmvalidator.addValidation("FirstName","alpha");

the first argument is the name of the field and the second argument is the validation descriptor, which specifies the type of validation to be performed.
You can add any number of validations. The list of validation descriptors are provided at the end of the documentation.
The optional third argument is the error string to be displayed if the validation fails.

frmvalidator.addValidation("FirstName","alpha");
frmvalidator.addValidation("FirstName","req","Please enter your First Name");
frmvalidator.addValidation("FirstName","maxlen=20",
"Max length for FirstName is 20");


4. Similarly, add validations for the fields where validation is required.
That’s it! You are ready to go.

Example

The example below will make the idea clearer
<form action="" name="myform" >
<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td align="right">First Name</td>
<td><input type="text" name="FirstName"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Last Name</td>
<td><input type="text" name="LastName"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">EMail</td>
<td><input type="text" name="Email"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Phone</td>
<td><input type="text" name="Phone"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Address</td>
<td><textarea cols="20" rows="5" name="Address"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Country</td>
<td>
<SELECT name="Country">
<option value="" selected>[choose yours]
<option value="008">Albania
<option value="012">Algeria
<option value="016">American Samoa
<option value="020">Andorra
<option value="024">Angola
<option value="660">Anguilla
<option value="010">Antarctica
<option value="028">Antigua And Barbuda
<option value="032">Argentina
<option value="051">Armenia
<option value="533">Aruba
</SELECT>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"></td>
<td><input type="submit" value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
var frmvalidator = new Validator("myform");
frmvalidator.addValidation("FirstName","req","Please enter your First Name");
frmvalidator.addValidation("FirstName","maxlen=20",
"Max length for FirstName is 20");
frmvalidator.addValidation("FirstName","alpha");

frmvalidator.addValidation(“LastName”,”req”);
frmvalidator.addValidation(“LastName”,”maxlen=20″);

frmvalidator.addValidation(“Email”,”maxlen=50″);
frmvalidator.addValidation(“Email”,”req”);
frmvalidator.addValidation(“Email”,”email”);

frmvalidator.addValidation(“Phone”,”maxlen=50″);
frmvalidator.addValidation(“Phone”,”numeric”);

frmvalidator.addValidation(“Address”,”maxlen=50″);
frmvalidator.addValidation(“Country”,”dontselect=0″);
</script>

Some Additional Notes

The form validators should be created only after defining the HTML form (only after the </form> tag. ) Your form should have a distinguished name. If there are more than one form in the same page, you can add validators for each of them. The names of the forms and the validators should not clash. You can’t use the javascript onsubmit event of the form if it you are using this validator script. It is because the validator script automatically overrides the onsubmit event. If you want to add a custom validation, see the section below Adding Custom Validation If you want to add a custom validation, which is not provided by the validation descriptors, you can do so. Here are the steps: Create a javascript function which returns true or false depending on the validation. function DoCustomValidation() { var frm = document.forms["myform"]; if(frm.pwd1.value != frm.pwd2.value) { alert('The Password and verified password does not match!'); return false; } else { return true; } } Associate the validation function with the validator object. frmvalidator.setAddnlValidationFunction("DoCustomValidation"); The custom validation function will be called automatically after other validations. If you want to do more than one custom validations, you can do all those validations in the same function. function DoCustomValidation() { var frm = document.forms["myform"]; if(false == DoMyValidationOne()) { alert('Validation One Failed!'); return false; } else if(false == DoMyValidationTwo()) { alert('Validation Two Failed!'); return false; } else { return true; } } where DoMyValidationOne() and DoMyValidationTwo() are custom functions for validation. Clear All Validations In some dynamically programmed pages, it may be required to change the validations in the form at run time. For such cases, a function is included which clears all validations in the validator object. frmvalidator.clearAllValidations(); this function call clears all validations you set. You will not need this method in most cases. Table of Validation Descriptors required req The field should not be empty maxlen=??? maxlength=??? checks the length entered data to the maximum. For example, if the maximum size permitted is 25, give the validation descriptor as “maxlen=25″ minlen=??? minlength=??? checks the length of the entered string to the required minimum. example “minlen=5″ alphanumeric / alnum Check the data if it contains any other characters other than alphabetic or numeric characters num numeric Check numeric data alpha alphabetic Check alphabetic data. email The field is an email field and verify the validity of the data. lt=??? lessthan=??? Verify the data to be less than the value passed. Valid only for numeric fields. example: if the value should be less than 1000 give validation description as “lt=1000″ gt=??? greaterthan=??? Verify the data to be greater than the value passed. Valid only for numeric fields. example: if the value should be greater than 10 give validation description as “gt=10″ regexp=??? Check with a regular expression the value should match the regular expression. example: “regexp=^[A-Za-z]{1,20}$” allow up to 20 alphabetic characters. dontselect=?? This validation descriptor is valid only for select input items (lists) Normally, the select list boxes will have one item saying ‘Select One’ or some thing like that. The user should select an option other than this option. If the index of this option is 0, the validation description should be “dontselect=0″ <!– 21 Oct 2006 Blocking link to simfatic.com NOTE: Simfatic Forms contains still more number of validations (comparison validations, check box & radio button validations and more) You can have conditional validations too ( validate only if a condition is met ). Using Simfatic Forms, you can add validations to your forms without writing a single line of code!Using Simfatic Forms you can design generate, install and maintain web forms painlessly. Click here for more information –> Example Page See the JavaScript form validation example here