RE: [PEAR] Complex server-side rules with QuickForm

> -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Patrin [mailto:papercrane@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 13:06 > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:58:11 -0500, Joshua Beall > <jbeall@heraldic.us> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am wanting to do "complex" server-side JS validation. I put "complex" in > > quotes because complex is of course in the eye of the beholder. > > Ok, first thing. "server-side" and "JS" are mutually exclisuve. > Server-side rules are PHP and client-side rules are JS. Yikes, that was a nasty typo. I meant client-side. > > Sounds more like you want some DHTML, not validation. You can easily > add an onChange for the select box using: > $el->updateAttributes('onchange' => 'someJSFunction(this)'); > > If you want to validate that as well, the easiest way is with a > formRule, which would be server-side only. > > function validateSomething($values) { > //return true or array with error message(s) > } > $form->addFormRule('validateSomething'); > > If you want to add custom JS validation I think you need to create a > new rule type (class), register it, and add it to your form. I understand all that, I just was wondering if QuickForm had some sort of builtin functionality to handle the situation I described.