RE: [PHP] Re: your method for validating forms

Chris Shiflett <mailto:shiflett@php.net> on Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:18 PM said: > There are definitely benefits to saving the extra request and response > necessary to properly display errors, but I'm not so sure I would > count usability as one of them. In addition, the user's perception of > the site's general quality and professionalism may be a concern, and > a JavaScript popup certainly doesn't improve this. I went to an ecom site today that used js validation but in a very slick way. There were no popups to be seen. Instead, when I tried to add a product to my cart without specifying some attributes a little red message magically appeared on the page that said "Please choose a color". A client-side validation class would be usable imo if it doesn't utilize popups. Not being experienced with js I can imagine that not using popups and still warning the customer of a mistake would be complicated. I prefer server-side but that's mainly just because I don't like js. Chris.