The FP bot actually does have a validation to check that a field has been
field in with a pre-set string such as the word "Friday". (see that
procedure below).
However here is a simple Javascript that does the same thing - checks for
the "enter the day after Thursday" value;
The Javascript below & form work; note that this only checks for a value of
"Friday" with a capital 'F', not all variances like "FRIDAY" or "friday".
You'd need to modify it to include those variations, else the script
rejects the value entered as not valid.
else you can do (more or less) the same thing with the FP validation bot.
Note reference to "feedback" is the name of the form(if you have more than
one form on the page, you'd need to distiguish between them so the script
doesn't get confused if there's a field with the same name in two forms),
reference to "textbox" is the name of the input type field the script is
checking.
<script language="Javascript">
<!--
function ValidateForm(feedback) {
passcode = feedback.textbox.value;
if (passcode != "Friday")
alert ("\n You have not typed the correct answer")
return false;
}
else return true;
}
-->
</script>
<form name="feedback" onSubmit='ValidateForm(this)'; method="post"
action="/cgi-bin/mail.cgi">
What is the day after Thursday?
<input type="text" name="textbox" value="">
</form>
If you want you could put the script in an external js file and reference it
like <script language="javascript" src="validate.js'>
in the <head> of your code.
The code & form above work! My first Javascript written from scratch!
Otherwise, use the FP validation:
1. Go to the field validation for your form input type text-box
2. Check the "Data Length as "Required"
3. Put the Maximum Length of 7 chars.
4. Under "Data Value" check "Field must be" and choose "Equal to" and then
type in Friday in the "Value" box.
This is the code it produces:
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" U-File="file:///F:/Documents and
Settings/Andrew Murray/My Documents/My
Webs/murraywebs/_private/form_results.csv" S-Format="TEXT/CSV"
S-Label-Fields="TRUE" -->
<p>
<!--webbot bot="Validation" B-Value-Required="TRUE" I-Minimum-Length="1"
I-Maximum-Length="7" S-Validation-Constraint="Equal to"
S-Validation-Value="friday" -->
<input type="text" name="T1" size="20" maxlength="7">
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1">
<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></p>
</form>
