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jQuery Validation Plugin
The standard formtool library leverages Jörn Zaefferer's jQuery Validation Plugin. The basic method is to attach to the form's onsubmit event, read out all the form elements' classes and perform validation if required. If a field fails validation, reveal field validation advice and prevent the form from submitting.
- Documentation & Reference
- jQuery Validation Plugin page
List of validation methods
- required
- url
- date
- number
- digits
- creditcard
Validate Content Types
Simple add ftValidation to your Formtool Property with a comma separated list of validation requirements.Example
<cfcomponent name="superHero" extends="farcry.core.packages.types.types" output="false" displayname="Super Hero"> <cfproperty name="title" type="string" hint="Super hero title." required="true" ftSeq="1" ftValidation="required" ftFieldset="General Details" ftWizardStep="Teaser Information" ftLabel="Title" /> <cfproperty name="mailaddress" type="string" hint="His Email" ftSeq="2" ftValidation="required,email" ftFieldset="General Details" ftWizardStep="Teaser Information" ftLabel="Email Address" /> <cfproperty name="homepage" type="string" hint="Homepage" ftSeq="3" ftValidation="url" ftFieldset="General Details" ftWizardStep="Teaser Information" ftLabel="Homepage" /> <cfproperty name="nbrOfSiblings" type="integer" hint="Siblings" default="0" ftSeq="4" ftValidation="required,digits" ftFieldset="General Details" ftWizardStep="Teaser Information" ftLabel="Siblings" /> </cfcomponent>
Additional methods
There are additional methods like lettersonly or nowhitespace provided by the jQuery plugin which are not loaded by default.
You can register and load the javascript file when you want to use it.
<skin:registerJS id="jquery-validate-additional" baseHREF="#application.url.webtop#/thirdparty/jquery-validate" lFiles="additional-methods.js" bCombine="false" /> <!--- Combine doesn't work. Seems to have a problem with the regex. --->
<skin:loadJS id="jquery-validate-additional" />
Open core/webtop/thirdparty/jquery-validate/additional-methods.js to see all documented validation functions.