Jim,

Are you Tired and Cranky in New England?



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:27 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Smart or Stupid (CFLOOP as a GOTO)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:42 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Smart or Stupid (CFLOOP as a GOTO)
>
> When you're done, can you let us know which site it is, so I'll put it on
> my
> list of sites never to go to?  I HATE forms that tell me somethings wrong,
> I
> correct that, then it says something else is wrong.

As I've already told Jochem (who made the same comment, only far more
tactfully) this for a SINGLE FIELD.

The email field (a SINGLE FIELD) for example might:

1) Need to be populated.

2) Need to be less than 255 characters

3) Need to follow general email format.

4) Need to be checked against the database.

You would NEVER want all four of these situations to be shown at once.  You
want the system to validate until it finds an error then STOP (you don't
check the database if there's no value for example).  You store than error,
then check the other fields (which may themselves have many validations).

So a single form MAY display multiple issues - but a single FIELD would only
display one.

You are still left with the potential for several iteration of a form.  They
forget the email here, but here it's been found not to be unique.

But if you still want to stay away from the sites here they are:

www.depressedpres.com
www.cfadvocacy.org
www.firstnight.org

Jim Davis, tired and cranky.



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