Re: Quickform rules & documentation

<mcarter@quantiv.com> wrote : > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bertrand Mansion [mailto:bmansion@mamasam.com] >> >> <mcarter@quantiv.com> wrote : >> >>> Did I see somewhere that you can specify regular expressions to >>> validate form field content? I can't find any examples of >> it in use >>> now! >>> >>> I wanted to check if a URL was valid using: >>> >> ^(http|https|ftp)\://[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(:[a-zA-Z0-9]*)?/? >>> ([a-zA >>> -Z0-9\-\._\?\,\'/\\\+&%\$#\=~])*$ >> >> $form->addRule('urlfield', 'URL not good, baby', 'regex', >> '/^(http|https|ftp)\://[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(:[a-zA- >> Z0-9]*)?/?([a- >> zA-Z0-9\-\._\?\,\'/\\\+&%\$#\=~])*$/'); > > How do the extended parameters work in Quickform? Are they always checked > in pairs? I've noticed some code contains ,null, in the parameter list as > if it was a padding. > > I'm thinking about some of the single parameter ones such as 'client' and > 'required'. Should they be provided along with a null to make the pair? > Such as: > > $form->addRule('news_editor', 'Editors name is a required field', > 'required', null, 'client', null); $form->addRule('news_editor', 'Editors name is a required field', 'required', null, 'client'); The extra parameter is to be used only when you need to pass a format (ex: a regex, a length, anything like an array etc.) to your validation function. Regex, minlength, maxlength etc are predefined validation "functions". You can use your own too, look at the examples. > Or is $form->addRule('news_editor', 'Editors name is a required > field', > 'required', 'client'); fine? PHP newbie ? :) Bertrand Mansion Mamasam