RE: How to verify email address

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1997

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texte = Rob -(I'm putting your separate questions together here)>Is there any way to customize the error message returned when a>RequiredField is not entered.Sure - go into the 'ErrorMessages.db' file and put in whatever you like. Remember that this is meant to be a simple, easy way to notify users that required fields weren't filled out - you can always remove the requiredfields input from the form and use [showif] or [hideif] on the results page to check to see if values were filled out correctly. If you do it this way, you'll want to use the [purchase] tag somewhere on that template instead of a $purchase command in the URL, so you'll have a chance to hide the [purchase] tag if everything isn't filled out correctly.>Is there any way to check that the expmonth and expyear credit card date>fields are actually a sensible date in the future?Just use [showif] based on whatever criteria you like: if these fields are not in the correct form, you can show a message asking them to back up and re-enter the information; if they are in the correct form, you can accept the order normally.>Is there a way to verify the email and shiptoemail fields entered into>a cart are indeed in valid email address form? AOL users have an>unfortunate way of just putting down their screen name.Same thing; use something like [showif [email]^@] ... [/showif] to make sure [email] contains an @ symbol.I hope this helps,Marc EagleStarNine Technologieshttp://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

RE: How to verify email address (Marc Eagle 1997)

Rob -(I'm putting your separate questions together here)>Is there any way to customize the error message returned when a>RequiredField is not entered.Sure - go into the 'ErrorMessages.db' file and put in whatever you like. Remember that this is meant to be a simple, easy way to notify users that required fields weren't filled out - you can always remove the requiredfields input from the form and use [showif] or [hideif] on the results page to check to see if values were filled out correctly. If you do it this way, you'll want to use the [purchase] tag somewhere on that template instead of a $purchase command in the URL, so you'll have a chance to hide the [purchase] tag if everything isn't filled out correctly.>Is there any way to check that the expmonth and expyear credit card date>fields are actually a sensible date in the future?Just use [showif] based on whatever criteria you like: if these fields are not in the correct form, you can show a message asking them to back up and re-enter the information; if they are in the correct form, you can accept the order normally.>Is there a way to verify the email and shiptoemail fields entered into>a cart are indeed in valid email address form? AOL users have an>unfortunate way of just putting down their screen name.Same thing; use something like [showif [email]^@] ... [/showif] to make sure [email] contains an @ symbol.I hope this helps,Marc EagleStarNine Technologieshttp://www.smithmicro.com/ Marc Eagle

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RE: How to verify email address

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