>I'm also trying to use Matts FormMail, and while it does most of what it is
>supposed to do correctly I cannot make it require fields to be entered. It is
>a feature, but I can't seem to get it right. Could someone who knows the
>product help me?
i'm afraid that part's out of my league.. i'd need to spend time digging
thru the code to see how it implements that feature, and without meaning
any major disrespect to M. Wright, his code really isn't self-documenting.
it also doesn't shoot for a high degree of logical rigor.. everything works
if you feed information in the right way, but heaven only knows what will
happen if you feed it pathalogical data. that, combined with the fact
that there's no clear description of 'good data' means that users tend to
learn the definition of 'bad data' through trial and impact.
out of curiosity, how do you indicate the fields which should be required?
i know most of the features in FormMail are driven by hidden variables, so
do you list the names of the required items in a hidden field? if so,
what's the required format?
this is a guess straight out of east hyperspace, but it could be something
as simple (and invisible) as a whitespace problem.. if you're supposed to
enter the names as:
<input type="hidden" name="required" value="var1,var2,var3">
and your page contains something like:
<input type="hidden" name="required" value="var1, var2, var3">
the part that splits the value into variable names might not remove the
unwanted spaces. that will leave the requirements section looking for
variables 'var1', ' var2', and ' var3'. other common but nearly
impossible to see mismatches would involve the silent elimination of all
spaces in the name (which would only cause problems for variables like
"street address"), or capitalization issues.
mike stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'net geek..
been there, done that, have network, will travel.
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