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onSubmit and validation issue

north_dave
Explorer ,
Nov 05, 2008 Nov 05, 2008
This is my first time posting here and I am new to CF. I took and passed a figleaf course on Cold Fusion and have some other programing background.

The issue that I cannot seem to resolve has to do with onSubmit. Here is some very basic code straight out of my Fast Track to CF class...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Insert Artist Form</title>
</head>

<body>

<h2>Insert an Artist</h2>

<cfform name="insArtist">

First Name:
<cfinput type="text" name="FirstName" maxlength="20" required="yes" message="Please input an artist first name." validateat="onserver" /><br/>

Last Name:
<cfinput type="text" name="LastName" maxlength="20" required="yes" message="Please input an artist last name." validateat="onsubmit" /><br/>

<cfinput type="submit" name="Insert" value="Insert Artist" />

</cfform>

</body>
</html>

When I leave the fields blank the onServer message does come up.

If I take out first name and try to verify only Last Name I can click as much as I like on the Submit button but the alert never comes up with the message "Please input an artist last name."

I have set up a system using XP SP3 and the same issue happens on Firefox 3.0.3 or IE 7.

I am using CFEclipse, Apache, and CF8. I have Virtual Hosts set up for my sandbox.

Please let me know if any other information is needed.

Thanks for your help.

Dave
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north_dave
Explorer , Nov 06, 2008 Nov 06, 2008
Thanks JR "Bob" Dobbs you pointed me in the right direction.

The issue was how I had set up my virtual directories. Being that I am new to web development I didn't understand how that scripts directory was being accessed. I fixed this issue, with some help from the boss by adding the following to my http.conf file for apache.

# "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
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JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2
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Nov 05, 2008 Nov 05, 2008
Your code seems to be valid.

Check these items:
1. Are the supporting javascript files accessible to your browser? They are located in /CFIDE/ and are named /CFIDE/scripts/cfform.js and /CFIDE/scripts/masks.js

2. Does your browser have javascript enabled?

3. Is the browser reporting any javascript exceptions?

Also note that the validateAt="onServer" works by adding a hidden form field that instructs the server on what to validate. It can be easily bypassed by a user so I wouldn't rely on it.
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north_dave
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Nov 05, 2008 Nov 05, 2008
Error Console in Firefox specifies this line as a problem...

if( !_CF_hasValue(_CF_this['LastName'], "TEXT", false ) )

This is code that is generated by CF on the fly though.. All I'm doing is setting onSubmit.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><script type="text/javascript" src="/CFIDE/scripts/cfform.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/CFIDE/scripts/masks.js"></script>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Insert Artist Form</title>

<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.ColdFusion) ColdFusion.required['FirstName']=true;
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.ColdFusion) ColdFusion.required['LastName']=true;
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
_CF_checkinsArtist = function(_CF_this)
{
//reset on submit
_CF_error_exists = false;
_CF_error_messages = new Array();
_CF_error_fields = new Object();
_CF_FirstErrorField = null;

//form element LastName required check
if( !_CF_hasValue(_CF_this['LastName'], "TEXT", false ) )
{
_CF_onError(_CF_this, "LastName", _CF_this['LastName'].value, "Please input an artist last name.");
_CF_error_exists = true;
}


//display error messages and return success
if( _CF_error_exists )
{
if( _CF_error_messages.length > 0 )
{
// show alert() message
_CF_onErrorAlert(_CF_error_messages);
// set focus to first form error, if the field supports js focus().
if( _CF_this[_CF_FirstErrorField].type == "text" )
{ _CF_this[_CF_FirstErrorField].focus(); }

}
return false;
}else {
return true;
}
}
//-->

</script>
</head>

<body>

<h2>Insert an Artist</h2>

<form name="insArtist" id="insArtist" action="/content/contactnew.cfm" method="post" onsubmit="return _CF_checkinsArtist(this)">

<!-- First Name:
<input name="FirstName" id="FirstName" type="text" maxlength="20" /><br/> -->

Last Name:
<input name="LastName" id="LastName" type="text" maxlength="20" /><br/>

<input name="Insert" id="Insert" type="submit" value="Insert Artist" /> <input type='hidden' name='FirstName_CFFORMREQUIRED' value='Please input an artist first name.'>

</form>


</body>
</html>
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JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2
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Nov 05, 2008 Nov 05, 2008
In Response To north_dave
Sounds like the supporting javascript files cannot be found by the browser.

Can you browse to /CFIDE/scripts/cfform.js or /CFIDE/scripts/masks.js?
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north_dave
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Nov 05, 2008 Nov 05, 2008
Both files are available in C:\dev\CFIDE\scripts on my machine. I have a virtual host set up to get into cfadmin

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.localhost
DocumentRoot "C:\dev\CFIDE"
ServerName www.cf8.localhost
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

The CFIDE folder and cfdocs folder are both in a folder called dev where I am hosting my apache root. I notice, though I don't know if it's important, that WEB-INF is in a wwwroot folder like this C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot.

Any ideas what I can do to fix this? Thanks for replying JR "Bob" Dobbs!
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JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2
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Nov 05, 2008 Nov 05, 2008
In Response To north_dave
You need a directory or virtual directory /CFIDE.

I'm not familiar with Apache, but this link may help.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=configuring_08.html#1171424
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north_dave
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Nov 05, 2008 Nov 05, 2008
In Response To JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2
The virtual directory is Dev/CFIDE. Thanks for working this out with me. Maybe it does have to do with pathing but the directory is there.

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JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2
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Nov 05, 2008 Nov 05, 2008
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If you add the attribute scriptSrc="/Dev/CFIDE/scripts" to your cfform tag does the validation work?

Can you browse to /Dev/CFIDE/scripts/cfform.js?
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north_dave
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Nov 05, 2008 Nov 05, 2008
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quote:
Originally posted by: JR "Bob" Dobbs
If you add the attribute scriptSrc="/Dev/CFIDE/scripts" to your cfform tag does the validation work?

Can you browse to /Dev/CFIDE/scripts/cfform.js?


The validation still is not working. Also I can get to the cfform.js does exist in /Dev/CFIDE/scripts/cfform.js.

I am heading home but I will pick up on this in the morning and try looking at the pathing some more.
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north_dave
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Nov 06, 2008 Nov 06, 2008
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Thanks JR "Bob" Dobbs you pointed me in the right direction.

The issue was how I had set up my virtual directories. Being that I am new to web development I didn't understand how that scripts directory was being accessed. I fixed this issue, with some help from the boss by adding the following to my http.conf file for apache.

# "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory "C:\dev\CFIDE">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
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