Yup.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Blatchley ~ Bridgeleaf Studios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 11:33 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Smart or Stupid (CFLOOP as a GOTO)
> 
> 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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