I'm using Godaddy's gdform.php form mailer for my forms. The forms work perfectly except the validation. I need the visitors to fill in the fields and then submit the information to my email, but the problem is that everyone can submitt even if he doesn't fill in the form. I want all of the fileds to be required. Is there something wrong with the code ? Here it is :




<form action="/gdform.php" method="post">
<table align="center">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Form Submission">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="/Add/thankmes.html">
<input type="hidden" name="required" value="YourName, Email, description">
<tr>
<td><p><font color=WHITE font size=4>Your Name:</p> </font></td> <td align=center height=50><p><input type="text" name="YourName" size="52"/></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><font color=WHITE font size=4>Your E-mail:</p> </font></td> <td height=50><p><input type="text" name="Email" size="52"/></p></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><p><font color=WHITE font size=4>Your Message:</p> </font></td> <td><br><p><textarea name="description" cols="40" rows="5">
</textarea></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Your validation doesn't really have anything to do with the html code you just posted. It'll actually be taking place through (I assume) the gdform.php file.

Originally Posted by VirtuosiMedia

Your validation doesn't really have anything to do with the html code you just posted. It'll actually be taking place through (I assume) the gdform.php file.

Unfortunately this isn't happening, and I don't know why. Is there a problem with the gdform.php file ?

He means you'll need to post the code from the php file, if there is anything wrong with it then it will be in there.

Here is the gdform.php code :


<?php
$request_method = $_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"];
if($request_method == "GET"){
$query_vars = $_GET;
} elseif ($request_method == "POST"){
$query_vars = $_POST;
}
reset($query_vars);
$t = date("U");

$file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/../data/gdform_" . $t;
$fp = fopen($file,"w");
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($query_vars)) {
fputs($fp,"<GDFORM_VARIABLE NAME=$key START>\n");
fputs($fp,"$val\n");
fputs($fp,"<GDFORM_VARIABLE NAME=$key END>\n");
if ($key == "redirect") { $landing_page = $val;}
}
fclose($fp);
if ($landing_page != ""){
header("Location: http://".$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]."/$landing_page");
} else {
header("Location: http://".$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]."/");
}


?>


The user can fill in any, all, or none of the fields and submit. Does anyone know how to edit the gdform.php code so it doesn't pass empty fields ?

best way to do it would be to add some javascript
<script>
function IsEmpty(aTextField) {
if ((aTextField.value.length==0) ||
(aTextField.value==null)) {
return true;
}
else { return false; }
}
</script>
Add the above javascript into the html

and change ur form tag to this , make sure u use the correct form name
<form name=form1 action=/gdform.php method=post onsubmit="javascript:return IsEmpty
(this)">

That should be all.

Where exactly should I add this javascript ? You mean, I have to rewrite the forms entirely ?

JavaScript can be turned off, so you don't want to rely on it for form validation. It's nice because it can inform the user before they submit the form that it needs correcting, but you will also need to validate the form using PHP.

Originally Posted by VirtuosiMedia

but you will also need to validate the form using PHP.

This is the problem : I don't know how !

Try this:
http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/fo...n-with-php.php