This may be a VERY dumb question, but I'm brain fried. Okay - so I'm working on a form and I need to validate fields for many things. Taking "email address" for example I need to validate that it's been filled in (not zero length), that it's less than 255 characters (the database limit), that it fits a email format and finally that the email address isn't already in use.
What I'd like to be able to do is check through all these validations. The instant a problem is found I want to stop checking. I would then redisplay the form and so forth. In a custom tag or function I might, when an error is found simply "return" to the caller with the error information. Since this is a rather small set and is only the first of many small forms I decided (perhaps wrongly) to just do the validation at the top of the page. To simulate a components ability to return at any point I wrapped the whole validation block in a CFLOOP from 1 to 1 (1 iteration) - as soon as I hit an error (and set the error variable) I CFBREAK. Right after the loop I check the value of the error variable. Now that I'm looking at it I'm not sure... is this just the stupidest thing you're ever heard? Should I take the extra time and create a customized validation custom tag for each and every form? Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
