.aspx forms, required fields left blank

Hi. I am working with someone on an .aspx page. They created the page & all I do is test it. We put this page live for a week & someone filled out the form, but somehow managed to skip a couple required fields. I do not know how they did this, because we have a pop-up window that will come up if you did not enter a field in, it will let you know. 3 fields were not filled in that are required. Is there a special blank character they could have put in? I tried the space bar but that did not work. Any ideas as to why or how they got around this?
Thanks.

A link to your form page would help, but sounds like JavaScript is being used for the form validation, and the user may have had JavaScript disabled? Otherwise, the required fields are possibly being set via hidden fields in the form, in which case a spammer could by-pass the form and submit directly to your script, getting around the fields being required. Both are just possible guesses though.

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> i'm creating an inquiry form for a client hosting
w/godaddy.
> Site is in DW using godaddy's php form mail script.
script works fine for
> sending formmail.
>
> Is it possible to validate form fields in php? the
customer wants to have
> the
> first name, email address, etc. being a required field
or the form will
> not
> submit. godaddy support is clueless, they e-mailed a kb
article on
> changing
> the form e-mail address as a solution.
>
> can anyone provide insight? thanx in advance!
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PHP Form - Required Fields

I've got my form working great thanks to Joe and David (and
others) in
this group.
I want to take it a step further by requiring three fields to
be filled
out. So I found this code to use in my thankyou2.php page:
if (!($frmName && $frmemail && $frmphone))
{echo "You must complete the
form to send it"; } else {
I *thought* that if I used it prior to the code that
processes the rest
of the page, and sends the admin e-mail, all would be swell.
However,
all I get is a blank page.
I'm almost thinking now that maybe the code needs to go on my
contact.php page rather than the thankyou.php page? That way,
the error
message could appear right on the contact page itself?
I'm fairly new to this PHP stuff, so go easy
www.paramount-const.com/contact.txt
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Dave

sorry:
header('Location:thankyoupage.php'.?name=$_POST['name']);
should read:
header('Location:thankyoupage.php?name='.$_POST['name']);
i misplaced the dot and quote...
(_seb_) wrote:
> Dave Anderson wrote:
>
>> Shane H wrote:
>>
>>>
http://www.geekministry.com/blog_article.php?id=40
>>>
>>> Kim provides an easy way to validate the form
and also a field for
>>> stopping spam (I use it on my website, works
very well!) - all in PHP.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Shane, good catch! Here method is so simple...
>>
>> I installed it, but have a few PHP questions.
>>
>> Source:
>> www.paramount-const.com/html/contact2.txt
>> www.paramount-const.com/html/thankyou2.txt
>>
>> Live form:
>>
http://www.paramount-const.com/html/contact.php
>>
>> 1) Biggest issue:
>> If the form is incorrectly filled out, the error
messages are
>> displayed at the top of the page. I'm not clever
enough to figure out
>> how to display the error message in the fieldset. I
tried putting the
>> php block of code in the fieldset, but it doesn't
seem to matter.
>> Maybe I can position it with CSS? or is there a
different way?
>>
>> 2) Nice to do but not imperative:
>> If the form is filled out properly, it redirects to
my thankyou page.
>> I would like to personalize the thank you if
possible. I know there's
>> a way to customize that page with a name variable,
but I can't get it
>> to work. I think what's happening is that I need to
somehow pass a
>> variable from the contact page to the thankyou page.
I have this at
>> the moment in my thankyou page:
>>
>> <?php echo 'Thank you,
'.htmlentities($_POST['name']).'.'; ?>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dave
>
>
> when you click on the submit button of the form,
basically the page
> reloads, this time with all the info from the form, as
$_POST info.
> If all this info is correct, you redirect to the thank
you page.
> You need to pass some of the info to the thank you page
(for example to
> echo the name of the person who just applied).
> SO, when the form is published and the page reloads, you
need to store
> this info, and pass it to the thankyou page.
>
> here's we go, scematically:
>
> <?php
> if [form submitted]...
> $name = [submitted name from form field];
> [if everything in the form is correct and we redirect to
thankyou
> page:]
>
header('Location:thankyoupage.php'.?name=$_POST['name']);
> }
> ?>
>
> Then in thankyou page,
>
> $name = $_GET['name'];
> echo $name;
>
>
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Please, I need a solution....
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Carlos

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Re: PHP Form - Required Fields

Change this section of code:
if(!count($Errors)) {
$SendTo = "[email protected]";
$Subject = "New Contact Form";
$FromString = "From: ".$_POST['eaddress']."\r\n";
$Indhold = "Dave, Someone filled out the contact form on the
web site.
Here is the information:\r\n\r\n";
$Indhold .= "name: ".$_POST['name']."\r\n";
$Indhold .= "e-mail: ".$_POST['eaddress']."\r\n";
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$Indhold .= "subject: ".$_POST['subject']."\r\n\r\n";
$Indhold .=
"comment:\r\n".preg_replace("(\r\n|\r|\n)","\r\n",$_POST['comment'])."\r\n";
$MailSuccess = mail($SendTo,$Subject,$Indhold,$FromString);
header("Location: thankyou2.php");
exit;***************************
To this:
if(!count($Errors)) {
$SendTo = "[email protected]";
$Subject = "New Contact Form";
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$Indhold = "Dave, Someone filled out the contact form on the
web site.
Here is the information:\r\n\r\n";
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$Indhold .= "phone: ".$_POST['telefon_nr']."\r\n";
$Indhold .= "subject: ".$_POST['subject']."\r\n\r\n";
$Indhold .=
"comment:\r\n".preg_replace("(\r\n|\r|\n)","\r\n",$_POST['comment'])."\r\n";
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exit;***************************
That part of the code that I pasted above it creating those
strings ONLY IF
there are no errors, so you can just add in seb's code there.
HTH, take care.
Shane H
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Ah - see now I put the formatting how I'd *like* the user to
input it.
Because I work with anyone in any loaction, naturally the
format would be
different.
For my contact.php page - the "phone" field isn't a
requirement, but for my
quote.php it is a requirement and I just validate it just to
make sure there
is SOMETHING in the text field. Not the best way, but I trust
a true future
client will provide their phone number.
Take care Dave, glad I could be of help.
Shane H
[email protected]
http://www.avenuedesigners.com
=============================================
Proud GAWDS Member
http://www.gawds.org/showmember.php?memberid=1495
Delivering accessible websites to all ...
=============================================
"Dave Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Shane H wrote:
>> Dave -
>>
>> I've tweaked your code and got it working for you.
Here are the pages in
>> text:
>>
>> Source code (contact.php):
>>
http://www.avenuedesigners.com/tests/dave_source.html
>>
>> Source code (thankyoupage.php):
>>
http://www.avenuedesigners.com/tests/dave_thankyou_source.html
>>
>> HTH, take care.
>>
>
>
> Shane,
>
> Many thanks! I took a look at what you did to compare to
what I had. I
> couldn't tell what was different!? Anyhow, it works
GREAT.
>
> I noticed on your site that you have a specific format
for the phone
> number. Would it look something like this?
>
> if(!trim($_POST['phone'])) $Errors[] = "Phone";
>
> change to this:
>
>
if(!preg_match("/[0-9]{2,4}+-[0-9]{2,4}+-[0-9]{3,5}/",$_POST['telefon_nr']))
> $Errors[] = "The phone number is typed wrong. (check the
format)";
>
>
> I tried it and it doesn't seem to care *what* I put in
(alphanumeric). I'm
> sure my code is bad, but I don't know what.
>
> Thanks for your help Shane!
>
> Dave

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I'm not a native speaker, sorry for some errors
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Hi Winnie
Unfortunately I have been sick and did not read the message before. I apologize.
I have not received help beyond what is on the page. But when I get I tell you.
I hope you can get answers. If you receive, I ask that you share with me.
thank you very much
best regards
AC
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:33:10 -0700
From: [email protected]
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Subject: Pop up Window before saving remembering the need (forcing) to fill required fields in a form
    Re: Pop up Window before saving remembering the need (forcing) to fill required fields in a form
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Hi ACI wonder if you can share any responses on to your question above?I too have never used a script but, I have the same problems as you in regards to building a form. And wants to have the same 'protection' and message reminders for the end users. Any information, including a script and/or a contact email of experts you can share with me will help tremendously. Thank you so much in advance. Winnie
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No way with just the free Reader. It may be done with Adobe Acrobat.

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