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1. walags
   Member

   This is what I would like to accomplish...say you have 50 drop down fields and you only want a user selecting a response for 10 of them, where do I start?

   I am assuming there is an easy function to see if a field is empty or not. Similar to the checking in place for required fields, I want to count how many fields are empty and prevent the user from submitting if it is more or less then I say so. In the example above I would want to have a total of 40 empty fields...no more no less.

   Could you see a function like this work in this environment?

   Posted 16 years ago #
2. 

   redityo

   Hi ..

   From your case you only want user to fill 10 from 50 Drop down right? you can try this modification to your machform :

   1. modify includes/post-functions.php

   #bellow line 131

   //count variable
   $selectRequiredCount = 0;

   #between line 630 ~ 632, replace

   if($validation_result !== true){
      $error_elements[$element_id] = $validation_result;
   }

   to

   //add rule blank check
   $rules[$element_name]['blank'] 	= true; 
   
   if($validation_result !== true){
   	if ($validation_result !== "BLANK")
   		$error_elements[$element_id] = $validation_result;
   	else
   		$selectRequiredCount++;
   
   }

   #in line 948, add

   if ($selectRequiredCount <> 40) {
   	$process_result['status'] = false;
   	$process_result['custom_error'] = "you must fill 10 entries";
   
   	return $process_result;
   }

   2. modify include/common-validator.php

   #in line 39

   //validation for blank
   function validate_blank($value){
   	$value = $value[0];
   
   	if(empty($value)) { //0  and '0' should not considered as empty
   		return 'BLANK';
   	}else{
   		return true;
   	}
   }

   ---

   MachForm Support

   Posted 16 years ago #

3. walags
   Member

   Wow, thanks for the quick response. It is not currently working for me. I edited the error message to output the $selectRequiredCount value. It doesn't appear that this variable is being incremented.

   Where does the new function validate_blank get called?

   Posted 16 years ago #
4. 

   redityo

   Really ? have you put bellow code to include/common-validator.php , and try echo the $selectRequiredCount in line 948 it should show the value.

   //validation for blank
   function validate_blank($value){
   	$value = $value[0];
   
   	if(empty($value)) { //0  and '0' should not considered as empty
   		return 'BLANK';
   	}else{
   		return true;
   	}
   }

   ---

   MachForm Support

   Posted 16 years ago #

5. walags
   Member

   do you have another piece of code i need to add? i'm not too sure how everything is set up but i don't see where you called validate_blank function. $selectRequiredCount remains zero.

   if you have these two files working can you just email them to wal_ags at yahoo?

   Posted 16 years ago #
6. 

   redityo

   I'm sorry my bad ..

   the code in that line supposed like this around line 630 ~ 632

   //add rules blank
   $rules[$element_name]['blank'] 	= true; 
   
   $target_input[$element_name] = $element_data;
   
   $validation_result = validate_element($target_input,$rules);
   
   if($validation_result !== true){
   	if ($validation_result !== "BLANK")
   		$error_elements[$element_id] = $validation_result;
   	else
   		$selectRequiredCount++;
   
   }

   ---

   MachForm Support

   Posted 16 years ago #

7. walags
   Member

   man yall are good. at a minimum yall should have a paypal donate button for custom stuff like this.

   i don't see it being an issue since i will only have one form active at a time, but can i limit this new requirement to a specific form number?

   Posted 16 years ago #
8. 

   redityo

   you can change this code

   $rules[$element_name]['blank'] = true;

   to

   if ($form_id == 1) {$rules[$element_name]['blank'] = true; }

   and thank you for suggestion :D

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   MachForm Support

   Posted 16 years ago #

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