Applying mx kollection form validation wwithout using mx kollection insert or update or del transaction

Is there a way to use the validate form without using the mx
kollection insert or update or delete transaction, and use the
default dreamweaver insert server behavior.

short answer : no, MX Kollection´s (also applies to
ADDT) form validation routines will only work for forms which have
been generated with MX Kollection/ADDT
>>
and use the default dreamweaver insert server behavior.
>>
but if you´re going to insert a record anyway, you can
as well use Kollection´s "Insert Record Form Wizard" to create
that form for you, which in turn does provide the required
validations.

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How can I use multiple row insert or update into DB in JSP?

Hi all,
pls help for my question.
"How can I use multiple rows insert or update into DB in JSP?"
I mean I will insert or update the multiple records like grid component. All the data I enter will go into the DB.
With thanks,

That isn't true. Different SQL databases have
different capabilities and use different syntax, That's true - every database has its own quirks and extensions. No disagreement there. But they all follow ANSI SQL for CRUD operations. Since the OP said they wanted to do INSERTs and UPDATEs in batches, I assumed that ANSI SQL was sufficient.
I'd argue that it's best to use ANSI SQL as much as possible, especially if you want your JDBC code to be portable between databases.
and there are also a lot of different ways of talking to
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Well, sure. As long as you only want to update rows
with the same value in column 2. I had the impression
he wanted to update a whole table. If he only meant
update all rows with the same value in a given column
with the same value, that's trivial. All updates do
that. But as far as I know there's know way to update
more than one row where the values are different.I used this as an example to demonstrate that it's possible to UPDATE more than one row at a time. If I have 1,000 rows, and each one is a separate UPDATE statement that's unique from all the others, I guess I'd have to write 1,000 UPDATE statements. It's possible to have them all either succeed or fail as a single unit of work. I'm pointing out transaction, because they weren't coming up in the discussion.
Unless you're using MySQL, for instance. I only have
experience with MySQL and M$ SQL Server, so I don't
know what PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and all the
rest are capable of, but I know for sure that MySQL
can insert multiple rows while SQL Server can't (or at
least I've never seen the syntax for doing it if it
does).Right, but this syntax seems to be specific to MySQL The moment you use it, you're locked into MySQL. There are other ways to accomplish the same thing with ANSI SQL.
Don't assume that all SQL databases are the same.
They're not, and it can really screw you up badly if
you assume you can deploy a project you've developed
with one database in an environment where you have to
use a different one. Even different versions of the
same database can have huge differences. I recommend
you get a copy of the O'Reilly book, SQL in a
Nutshell. It covers the most common DBMSes and does a
good job of pointing out the differences.Yes, I understand that.
It's funny that you're telling me not to assume that all SQL databases are the same. You're the one who's proposing that the OP use a MySQL-specific extension.
I haven't looked at the MySQL docs to find out how the syntax you're suggesting works. What if one value set INSERT succeeds and the next one fails? Does MySQL roll back the successful INSERT? Is the unit of work under the JDBC driver's control with autoCommit?
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What is your strategy for form validation when using MVC pattern?

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Thanks for your answer, JoshBeall. Just to clarify, you would basically create a subclass of e.g. TextInput and add the validation rules to that? Then you'd use your subclass when you need a textinput with validation?
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Having written this down I could probably improve the View side of things a bit, remove the dependency on the Panel component and make the API easier (have the framework wire up more of the boilerplate like adding listeners etc). But for now the code does what it needs to.

ERROR: "key not valid for use in specified state" when updating to Lightroom 5.6 in Win8.1

While doing a routine update from Lightroom 5.5 to v5.6 in Win 8.1, the installation halted at the start of the installation with the vague error message, "key not valid for use in specified state". Although v5.5 was working just fine, the install routine deleted the v5.5 application files. I rolled back to the previous system restore point (set just prior to the install) and recovered the executable files. However, now the 5.5 files won't open the default catalog, none of the backups, or even create a new catalog.
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You can validate your HTML at this link:
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PLEASE help with server-side form validation using PHP!!!

I feel like im going round and round in circles with this, after looking into all sorts of server-side advice i've come to the conclusion that i want to validate my form using server-side validation with PHP.
So my form has several drop down menu's and textareas (not all of them need validation). For the part of my form i would like to validate, all i want is the drop downs to have to be changed/selected. So just a simple message like "You must select an option" if customers haven't done so. For the textareas, they just need to be filled out, so a message like "Information required" to come up if customers haven't done so.
I believe i need to create a PHP page say for example 'error.php' place the validation code in there and set this part of the the form to -
<form name="product"form action="error.php" method="post" class="product_form">
BUT im getting really confused with creating the code for the error.php. Please please can anyone help me with this!!!???
Here are the drop down menu's i need validation on, error message being "You must select an option",
"figurine"
"engraving"
"font"
and here are the textareas that need validating, error message "Information required",
"test"
"Name"
"house"
"line_1"
"line_2"
"county"
"postcode"
"tel"
www.milesmemorials.com/product-GK1.html
I'd really appreciate any help!!!

Ness_quick wrote:
Great thats good enough for me. In that case, would you please be able to help me create the javascript for the above validation?? If you could just help me create it for this page i can amend it for all the other pages. I'd really really appreciate it!!!
Can you follow the below example?? Obviously AFTER validation has been successful you need to collect the information from the form and send it to the recipient email address...that's where you can use php. I'll check back tomorrow and see how you are doing.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html><head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Form validation</title>

<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="product" form action="processForm.php" method="post" class="product_form" onsubmit="return RequiredFormFields()">
<p class="product_form_options">Choice of Figurine<br>
<select name="figurine" class="productButton" id="figurine" onChange="Recalculate()">
<option selected>-- Select figurine --</option>
<option value="7031">Tropical Green Granite with bronze sacred heart figurine as pictured(£7031)</option>
<option value="5216">Tropical Green Granite with bronze effect sacred heart figurine (£5216)</option>
<option value="5216">Tropical Green Granite with reconstituded figurine MF122(£5216)</option>
</select>
</p>
<p class="product_form_options">Engraved Lettering<br>
<select name="engraving" class="productButton" id="engraving" onChange="Recalculate()">
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        <option value="2.30">Sandblast and enamel painted (£2.30/letter)</option>
        <option value="2.80">Sandblast and guilded (£2.80/letter)</option>
        <option value="2.20">Maintenance free (£2.20/letter)</option>
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        <option value="4.34">Raised lead and enamel painted (£4.34/letter)</option>
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</p>
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           <option value="White painted roman">White painted roman</option>
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<input name="house" type="text" id="house" size="67">
</p>
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How to make the server slide form validation using JSP?

anyone knows how to do server-side form validation??
Thanks in advanced

try this way
     //create a validation java class in that class u create separate methods for validating
     for example if u want to validate that a particular text box should not be empty
     then u can try this way
     say like this
     class ServerValidation()
     boolean message=false;
     public static boolean isTextBoxEmpty(String value)
     if(value.length<1)
     System.out.println("Text box is empty");
     message=false
     else
     message=true
     return message
now say u r having a html page in which there is a text box on submiting u call say validate.jsp
in this jsp u write this way
<%
String message=request.getParameter("name of ur text box");
boolean b=ServerValidation.isTextBoxEmpty(message)
if(b)
//valid is true do ur other activity
else
String messageToUser="Please Enter Some value"
u can now display this message on jsp and create a back button
%>
hope its clear

David Powers --- Regarding form validation with dreamweaver behaviors

I am in the chapter teaching about form validation with the Zend Framework. I have done the entire lesson with the lesson files and everything works perfectly...
but I went back to use the form valdation techniques for my own site and it is not working properly. In the book, Chapter 6 teaches how to create a user login and editing the database through the site. But in chapter seven the form validation does not build on top of this and therefore does not teach how to integrate the form validation with the registered user already set up.
I have user registration completly working on my site and everything runs fine. I am trying to add the form validation but it is all completly ignored. When I leave a field blank it simply takes me to another blank page that reads "Column 'first_name' cannot be null"
here is index.php code...
<?php require_once('Connections/CSSU_Write.php'); ?>
<?php require_once('Connections/CSSU_Read.php'); ?>
<?php require_once('script/user_registration.php');
?>
<?php
if (isset($_POST['password'])) {
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if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
if (PHP_VERSION < 6) {
    $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
$theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);
switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? doubleval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
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    case "defined":
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return $theValue;
$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) {
$insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO sign_up (first_name, family_name, user_email, password, gender, bday_month, bday_day, bday_year) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['first_name'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['last_name'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['email'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['password'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['gender'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['bday_month'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['bday_day'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['bday_year'], "text"));
mysql_select_db($database_CSSU_Write, $CSSU_Write);
$Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $CSSU_Write) or die(mysql_error());
$insertGoTo = "login.php";
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
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    $insertGoTo .= $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo));
?>
<?php
// *** Validate request to login to this site.
if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
session_start();
$loginFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_GET['accesscheck'])) {
$_SESSION['PrevUrl'] = $_GET['accesscheck'];
if (isset($_POST['email'])) {
$loginUsername=$_POST['email'];
$password=$_POST['password'];
$MM_fldUserAuthorization = "";
$MM_redirectLoginSuccess = "logoOutRedirect.php";
$MM_redirectLoginFailed = "logoOutRedirect.php";
$MM_redirecttoReferrer = false;
mysql_select_db($database_CSSU_Write, $CSSU_Write);
$LoginRS__query=sprintf("SELECT user_email, password FROM sign_up WHERE user_email=%s AND password=%s",
    GetSQLValueString($loginUsername, "text"), GetSQLValueString($password, "text"));
$LoginRS = mysql_query($LoginRS__query, $CSSU_Write) or die(mysql_error());
$loginFoundUser = mysql_num_rows($LoginRS);
if ($loginFoundUser) {
     $loginStrGroup = "";
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    $_SESSION['MM_UserGroup'] = $loginStrGroup;
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      $MM_redirectLoginSuccess = $_SESSION['PrevUrl'];
    header("Location: " . $MM_redirectLoginSuccess );
else {
    header("Location: ". $MM_redirectLoginFailed );
?>
<!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>CSSU</title>
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
<div class="logo">
            <a href="index.php">
              <h1/>
        .CSSU { UNIVERSITY; }
        </h1>
        <h2>
        <code><<code>!</code>-- Learn/Apply/Master --></code>
        </h2>
    </a>
</div>
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    <div class="headerBar">
    <div id="nav">
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                  <a href="#"><li>CSSU</li></a>
                  <a href="#"><li>Classes</li></a>
                  <a href="#"><li>Pricing</li></a>
                  <a href="#"><li>Degree</li></a>
              </ul>
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    <form name="form2" method="POST" action="<?php echo $loginFormAction; ?>" class="form2">
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        <label for="email" id="email" class="loginLabel">Email:</label>
        <input type="email" name="email" class="loginField" />
        <label for="password" id="password" class="loginLabel">Password:</label>
        <input type="password" name="password" class="loginField" />
              <input type="submit" value="Log In" name="submit" class="submit login" />
    </p>
    </form>
    </div>
<div class="container2">
<div class="sidebar1">
    <h1>Sign Up</h1>
    <h2>Earn an Official CSS Masters Certification!</h2>
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        <td class="formLabel"><label for="firstName" id="firstNameLabel" >First Name:</label>
                  <span>
                     <?php
                              if ($_POST && isset($errors['first_name'])) {
                                        echo $errors['first_name'];
                              ?>
            </span>
        </td>
        <td><input type="text" name="first_name" class="inputField" id="firstName" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="lastName" id="lastName" >Last Name:</label></td>
        <td><input type="text" name="last_name" class="inputField" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="yourEmail" id="yourEmail" >Your Email:</label></td>
        <td><input type="user_email" name="email" class="inputField" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="yourEmail2" id="yourEmail2">Re-enter Email:</label></td>
        <td><input type="email" name="reEnter_email" class="inputField" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="password" id="password">New Password:</label></td>
        <td><input type="password" name="password" class="inputField" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="gender" id="gender" class="formLabel">I am:</label></td>
      <td><select name="gender" class="selectMenu selectMenu1 gender">
          <option value="select">Select Sex:</option>
          <option value="male" name="male">Male</option>
          <option value="female" name="female">Female</option>
                    </select>
      </td>
          </tr>
           <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="bday">Birthday:</label></td>
           <td>
        <select name="bday_month" class="selectMenu selectMenu1 bday">
          <option value="male">Month:</option>
          <option value="January">January</option>
        </select>
<select name="bday_day" class="selectMenu bday">
          <option value="Day">Day:</option>
          <option value="1">1</option>
                    </select>
<select name="bday_year" class="selectMenu bday">
          <option value="Year">Year:</option>
        </select>
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
              <td class="submitTd" colspan="2"><input type="submit" value="Sign Up" name="submit" class="submit signup" /><td>
    </tr>
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    </div>
<div class="content">
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<div class="footer">
    </div>
    </div> 
</div>
</body>
</html>
And here is user_registration.php code just for the first_name field...
<?php
$errors = array();
if ($_POST) {
// run the validation script
require_once('library.php');
try {
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          $val = new Zend_Validate_Regex('/^[a-z]+[-\'a-z ]+$/i');
          if (!$val->isValid($_POST['first_name'])) {
            $errors['first_name'] = 'Required field, no numbers';
} catch (Exception $e) {
          echo $e->getMessage();
And from here, here is the library.php code....
<?php
$library = '.../html/zend/library';
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $library);
require_once('Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php');
try {
Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
$write = array('host'     => 'hostname',
                                         'username' => 'cssu',
                                         'password' => 'password',
                                         'dbname'   => 'cssu');
$read = array('host'     => 'hostname',
                                         'username' => 'cssu',
                                         'password' => 'password',
                                         'dbname'   => 'cssu');
// Comment out the next two lines if using mysqli
// and remove the comments from the last two lines
$dbWrite = new Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql($write);
$dbRead = new Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql($read);
//$dbWrite = new Zend_Db_Adapter_Mysqli($write);
//$dbRead = new Zend_Db_Adapter_Mysqli($read);
} catch (Exception $e) {
          echo $e->getMessage();
I replaced some code here to protect myself, but the library.php file is completely functional and has been tested... I am sure the problem ins't in here.
Please let me know if you need any further code to help you out. I am brand new to PHP and so far everything has ran smoothly up til now. I have my Zend Framework uploaded to my server and tested that my site is connecting to it properly. Any help on this would be so so awesome! This is for a school project and I can't move on until this is resolved! Thank you so much for trying!
You can also view the issue at my website... all the files have been uploaded to the server. www.CSSU.com

I am in the chapter teaching about form validation with the Zend Framework. I have done the entire lesson with the lesson files and everything works perfectly...
but I went back to use the form valdation techniques for my own site and it is not working properly. In the book, Chapter 6 teaches how to create a user login and editing the database through the site. But in chapter seven the form validation does not build on top of this and therefore does not teach how to integrate the form validation with the registered user already set up.
I have user registration completly working on my site and everything runs fine. I am trying to add the form validation but it is all completly ignored. When I leave a field blank it simply takes me to another blank page that reads "Column 'first_name' cannot be null"
here is index.php code...
<?php require_once('Connections/CSSU_Write.php'); ?>
<?php require_once('Connections/CSSU_Read.php'); ?>
<?php require_once('script/user_registration.php');
?>
<?php
if (isset($_POST['password'])) {
          $_POST['password'] = sha1($_POST['password']);
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
if (PHP_VERSION < 6) {
    $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
$theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);
switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? doubleval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
return $theValue;
$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) {
$insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO sign_up (first_name, family_name, user_email, password, gender, bday_month, bday_day, bday_year) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['first_name'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['last_name'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['email'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['password'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['gender'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['bday_month'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['bday_day'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['bday_year'], "text"));
mysql_select_db($database_CSSU_Write, $CSSU_Write);
$Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $CSSU_Write) or die(mysql_error());
$insertGoTo = "login.php";
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
    $insertGoTo .= (strpos($insertGoTo, '?')) ? "&" : "?";
    $insertGoTo .= $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo));
?>
<?php
// *** Validate request to login to this site.
if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
session_start();
$loginFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_GET['accesscheck'])) {
$_SESSION['PrevUrl'] = $_GET['accesscheck'];
if (isset($_POST['email'])) {
$loginUsername=$_POST['email'];
$password=$_POST['password'];
$MM_fldUserAuthorization = "";
$MM_redirectLoginSuccess = "logoOutRedirect.php";
$MM_redirectLoginFailed = "logoOutRedirect.php";
$MM_redirecttoReferrer = false;
mysql_select_db($database_CSSU_Write, $CSSU_Write);
$LoginRS__query=sprintf("SELECT user_email, password FROM sign_up WHERE user_email=%s AND password=%s",
    GetSQLValueString($loginUsername, "text"), GetSQLValueString($password, "text"));
$LoginRS = mysql_query($LoginRS__query, $CSSU_Write) or die(mysql_error());
$loginFoundUser = mysql_num_rows($LoginRS);
if ($loginFoundUser) {
     $loginStrGroup = "";
          if (PHP_VERSION >= 5.1) {session_regenerate_id(true);} else {session_regenerate_id();}
    //declare two session variables and assign them
    $_SESSION['MM_Username'] = $loginUsername;
    $_SESSION['MM_UserGroup'] = $loginStrGroup;
    if (isset($_SESSION['PrevUrl']) && false) {
      $MM_redirectLoginSuccess = $_SESSION['PrevUrl'];
    header("Location: " . $MM_redirectLoginSuccess );
else {
    header("Location: ". $MM_redirectLoginFailed );
?>
<!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>CSSU</title>
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
<div class="logo">
            <a href="index.php">
              <h1/>
        .CSSU { UNIVERSITY; }
        </h1>
        <h2>
        <code><<code>!</code>-- Learn/Apply/Master --></code>
        </h2>
    </a>
</div>
    </div>
    <div class="headerBar">
    <div id="nav">
              <ul id="links">
                  <a href="#"><li>CSSU</li></a>
                  <a href="#"><li>Classes</li></a>
                  <a href="#"><li>Pricing</li></a>
                  <a href="#"><li>Degree</li></a>
              </ul>
    </div>
    <form name="form2" method="POST" action="<?php echo $loginFormAction; ?>" class="form2">
    <p>
        <label for="email" id="email" class="loginLabel">Email:</label>
        <input type="email" name="email" class="loginField" />
        <label for="password" id="password" class="loginLabel">Password:</label>
        <input type="password" name="password" class="loginField" />
              <input type="submit" value="Log In" name="submit" class="submit login" />
    </p>
    </form>
    </div>
<div class="container2">
<div class="sidebar1">
    <h1>Sign Up</h1>
    <h2>Earn an Official CSS Masters Certification!</h2>
    <table>
    <form name="form1" method="POST" action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>" class="form1">
    <tr >
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="firstName" id="firstNameLabel" >First Name:</label>
                  <span>
                     <?php
                              if ($_POST && isset($errors['first_name'])) {
                                        echo $errors['first_name'];
                              ?>
            </span>
        </td>
        <td><input type="text" name="first_name" class="inputField" id="firstName" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="lastName" id="lastName" >Last Name:</label></td>
        <td><input type="text" name="last_name" class="inputField" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="yourEmail" id="yourEmail" >Your Email:</label></td>
        <td><input type="user_email" name="email" class="inputField" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="yourEmail2" id="yourEmail2">Re-enter Email:</label></td>
        <td><input type="email" name="reEnter_email" class="inputField" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="password" id="password">New Password:</label></td>
        <td><input type="password" name="password" class="inputField" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="gender" id="gender" class="formLabel">I am:</label></td>
      <td><select name="gender" class="selectMenu selectMenu1 gender">
          <option value="select">Select Sex:</option>
          <option value="male" name="male">Male</option>
          <option value="female" name="female">Female</option>
                    </select>
      </td>
          </tr>
           <tr>
        <td class="formLabel"><label for="bday">Birthday:</label></td>
           <td>
        <select name="bday_month" class="selectMenu selectMenu1 bday">
          <option value="male">Month:</option>
          <option value="January">January</option>
        </select>
<select name="bday_day" class="selectMenu bday">
          <option value="Day">Day:</option>
          <option value="1">1</option>
                    </select>
<select name="bday_year" class="selectMenu bday">
          <option value="Year">Year:</option>
        </select>
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
              <td class="submitTd" colspan="2"><input type="submit" value="Sign Up" name="submit" class="submit signup" /><td>
    </tr>
    <input type="hidden" name="MM_insert" value="form1" />
    </form>
    </table>
    </div>
<div class="content">
    <h1>CSSU</h1>
    </div>
<div class="footer">
    </div>
    </div> 
</div>
</body>
</html>
And here is user_registration.php code just for the first_name field...
<?php
$errors = array();
if ($_POST) {
// run the validation script
require_once('library.php');
try {
          // main script goes here
          $val = new Zend_Validate_Regex('/^[a-z]+[-\'a-z ]+$/i');
          if (!$val->isValid($_POST['first_name'])) {
            $errors['first_name'] = 'Required field, no numbers';
} catch (Exception $e) {
          echo $e->getMessage();
And from here, here is the library.php code....
<?php
$library = '.../html/zend/library';
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $library);
require_once('Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php');
try {
Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
$write = array('host'     => 'hostname',
                                         'username' => 'cssu',
                                         'password' => 'password',
                                         'dbname'   => 'cssu');
$read = array('host'     => 'hostname',
                                         'username' => 'cssu',
                                         'password' => 'password',
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// Comment out the next two lines if using mysqli
// and remove the comments from the last two lines
$dbWrite = new Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql($write);
$dbRead = new Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql($read);
//$dbWrite = new Zend_Db_Adapter_Mysqli($write);
//$dbRead = new Zend_Db_Adapter_Mysqli($read);
} catch (Exception $e) {
          echo $e->getMessage();
I replaced some code here to protect myself, but the library.php file is completely functional and has been tested... I am sure the problem ins't in here.
Please let me know if you need any further code to help you out. I am brand new to PHP and so far everything has ran smoothly up til now. I have my Zend Framework uploaded to my server and tested that my site is connecting to it properly. Any help on this would be so so awesome! This is for a school project and I can't move on until this is resolved! Thank you so much for trying!
You can also view the issue at my website... all the files have been uploaded to the server. www.CSSU.com

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