form redisplay and server-side validation vs. using just cfform

[dan_newbury]

I am creating an account registration form for my site and will provide validation to insure that the user has input all data correctly. I have read the pros and cons of cfform as it concerns using javascript for client-side validation and have also read about the ability to provide server-side validation with form redisplay allowing the form to keep the data already input by the user and provide any error messages about incorrect data input, etc. My question is two-fold:
1. To the people who create registration forms for sites on a regular basis, does a primary client-side validation using <cfform> with back-up server side validation (using the various _suffixes) create a user-friendly enough registration page?
2. Can anyone point me to a tutorial (hopefully newbie based), to creating a form-redisplay option for server-side validation.
Thanks for all your help!
dan

[Newsgroup_User]

This is how I do it:

http://www.fordwebs.com/cfform.cfm

--
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com


"dan_newbury" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I am creating an account registration form for my site and will provide
> validation to insure that the user has input all data correctly. I have
> read
> the pros and cons of cfform as it concerns using javascript for
> client-side
> validation and have also read about the ability to provide server-side
> validation with form redisplay allowing the form to keep the data already
> input
> by the user and provide any error messages about incorrect data input,
> etc. My
> question is two-fold:
> 1. To the people who create registration forms for sites on a regular
> basis,
> does a primary client-side validation using <cfform> with back-up server
> side
> validation (using the various _suffixes) create a user-friendly enough
> registration page?
> 2. Can anyone point me to a tutorial (hopefully newbie based), to
> creating a
> form-redisplay option for server-side validation.
> Thanks for all your help!
> dan
>

[dan_newbury]

Thanks so much--the tutorial is a great help! dan

[Oğuz Demirkapı]

Here is a nice post about form processing.

http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2005/7/6/validation

Comments are also valuable. 🙂

[Oğuz Demirkapı]

and here is another concept talk.

http://blog.pengoworks.com/index.cfm/2005/7/8/qForms-v20--Realtime-Server-Validation-Using-xmlHttpRe...