Very basic form validation question

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

Tabla Junkie wrote:

> I have a small form with fields for name, address, email, etc. I'm sending
> the completed form via cfmail, and would like the "from" field in the
> resulting email to appear to be from the email address entered in the form.
> I can do this with no problem, but what I can't figure out is how to
> validate the form so that the email form field is a required field and that
> leaving it empty will return either an error page or popup telling the
> person that their email address is required. Right now what happens is that
> if I leave the email field blank and then try to submit the form I get a
> Cold Fusion error message, which is fine for me but not fine for someone
> who doesn't know what it means.
>
> I'm pretty new at this and for the life of me I can't make sense of how to
> do this kind of validation, so any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks!

If you're on CFMX 7 you can validate it this way within a cfform block:
<cfinput type="text" required="yes" validate="email" message="Please
enter a valid email address." />

If you're not on CFMX 7 there are lots of javascript validation routines
you can use to do syntax checking on email addresses. Check
javascriptkit.com for some examples.

Matt

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Matt Woodward
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[sosueme]

To build on this topic, how can I get a cfselect list to validate w/o sending
to the cf message? We have CFMX 7 server.
The code is
<cfselect name="location" size="1" required="Yes" message="Please select from
the list">
<option value="">Select</option>
<option value="here">here</option>
<option value="there">there</option>
<option value="everywhere">everyhere</option>
</cfselect>

[Dan Bracuk]

I don't understand this question.

Originally posted by: sosueme
To build on this topic, how can I get a cfselect list to validate w/o sending to the cf message? We have CFMX 7 server.