Hi group, first time post!
A question about server side form validation.
I have been following the tutorials on the web2py website and I'm
building a simple form like this in the controller:
form=FORM(TABLE(TR("Username:",INPUT(_type="text",_name="username",requires=[IS_NOT_EMPTY(),
IS_NOT_IN_DB(db, 'users.username')])),
TR("Email:",INPUT(_type="text",_name="email",requires=IS_EMAIL())),
TR("",INPUT(_type="submit",_value="New User"))))
When I do this, is web2py doing the form validation server side, or is
it using client side javascript methods to validate the users' input?
I wouldn't want the end user to turn off javascript in the browser to
bypass validation.
I notice in the model I can also define my requirements like this:
db.users.username.requires=[IS_NOT_EMPTY(), IS_NOT_IN_DB(db,
'users.username')]
What's the difference between the two ways of defining form
validation?
Thanks in advance! :-)
Chris
