if else statment in mailform

Question

I have been creating a mail form with different field options
like "Input Fields", "Combo Boxes and "Checkboxes". Some of the
fields are required. When the person is pressing the next button
the required fields will be checked with a if statement, this is
working fine until I have added the else statement at the end of my
action script. 
Below is my action script code to check the fields and if
they are correct to send it to php. I hope someone can help me out
here.
It looks like the else statement skips the if statment. 
Some field descriptions and “setresult” field are
in Dutch.

blemmo · Accepted Answer

I see... in that case, it's better to use a variable to indicate if the data should be sent or not. If something is missing, set this var to false, and before sending, check for its value:
--
on (release) {
var senddata = true;
if (condition 1){ ...; senddata = false; }
if (condition 2){ ...; senddata = false; }
...
if (senddata) { send to server };
--
So when no field is missing, senddata would be true, and the mail can be sent. If one or more fields are missing, it's set to false, and the last 'if' will fail, so it's not sent.

cheers,
blemmo

blemmo · Answer

The 'else' is only associated with the last if statement, so it will always kick in when the last condition is false. To have it executed when none of the above conditions is met, add an 'else' before every 'if', so that they are connected:
if (condition 1) {...}
else if (condition 2) {...}
...
else { send form }

cheers,
blemmo

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