CFFORM VALIDATIOn

Help I am having a major issue. I have a cold fusion mx7
server that has a number of sites on it. I have the same script
running on two different domains on the same box. One site the form
validation works and the other it doesn't. What's can it be? Also,
it was all of a sudden. Yesterday, the form validation worked fine
on both sites. I also noticed another customer of mine who I did a
cold fusion site the form validation stopped working on his box
today as well. I know the form validation was working on all three
sites. What can it be? This is urgent!! PLEASE!!!:confused; I can
put a temporariy fix and add a virtual dir for that non working
site to the cfide folder but why should I all of a sudden have to
start doing that?

Well I ran into exactly the same issue yesterday and have
been pulling my hair out ever since. Arrrg.
I found a tech note that explains this in detail:
www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_18653
I'm on a multi-homed hosting provider but you would have the
same issue with mutiple sites on your own machine.
I copied my CFIDE/scripts directory from my CF developers
edition to the root of my hosted site and it immediately worked.
You'll need to preserve the directory structure but I bet you don't
really needed anything but cfform.js and masks.js. View the source
on your browsed pages and you'll see these files.

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That could be also, but in our case, we're not even using
custom JavaScript. We're just using the internal cf form
validation:
Example:
<cfform action="default.cfm" method="post">
<cfinput name="firstname" type="text" required="yes"
message="enter your name">
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit">
</cfform>
And, unless we create an IIS virtual directory mapping to the
CFIDE folder, even though it's in the CF Administrator mappings,
the validation doesn't work, even though it did in previous CF
versions.
Thanks for the idea, though.

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forms on each tab for processing
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Even if you have a number of submit buttons, you still only
have one form.
So the submit button(s) will submit the entire form.
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validation for the fields that are not relevent for the button
clicked.
Ken

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Given you initially hide the submit button, how then is the form submitted?

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The javascript validation relies on cfform.js which is in the
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then it will not work unless you specify where it is.
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I have listed the code I'm using to process the form for
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light on this for me. If it's not my code what are the downsides to
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I'm assuming the isDefined leadershipopp and joinassociation
are checkboxes.
But..
If for any reason one of the other form elements wasn't
defined, you'd have an error condition.
Wrap the cfmail tag in a cftry block and then in the cfcatch
email an admin email with the cfcatch.message and cfcatch.detail.
Make sure you validate the form.email format, check cflib.org
for a udf for this. you could also use cfform validation routines.
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Need to find _CF_checkCFForm

At the beginning of each page with a form that CF renders, it
puts a JS function called _CF_checkWhateverForm. I need to find
where in the guts of ColdFusion it is creating this function. When
it tries to put the cursor in the first failed validiation area, it
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try/ catch block. Where do I find that part of the inner
workings?

The setFocus('focusExample') is a function that iterates over
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that if I am using CFFORM, the validation works, but the form is
still allowed to submit if the validation fails. If I change the
cfform tags to regular form tags the validation works and the
submit is NOT allowed. I really need to use CFFORM. Does anyone
know what is happening here? Why is the form submitting even though
the spry validation failed. ???

Can we use onsubmit for simple form.
Like below
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id="loginForm" style="clear: both;" onsubmit="return
Spry.Widget.Form.validate(this)">
<span id="username">
<input name="username" id="username" type="text"
class="inputbox" size="15" />
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg"> Username
required</span>
</span>
<span id="password">
<input name="passwd" id="password" type="password"
class="inputbox" size="15" />
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">Password
required</span>
</span>
<a onClick="loginForm.submit();"> Login </a>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>

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information on the code reffered to above. I have included my code
below:
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Transitional//EN"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
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http://ns.adobe.com/spry/">
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<cfinclude template="/head/app.htm" />
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
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action="" onsubmit="javascript:return ValidateForm(this)"
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<h1>I.D. and Name Information</h1>
<p class="section">Section 1 of 7</p>
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<label for="ssn"><span
class="required">*</span>Social Security
Number:</label>
<p><cfinput id="ssn" class="field" name="ssn"
type="text" size="10" />
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">Please enter your
social security number.</span>
<span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Please enter a
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</div>
<div id="thessn2">
<label for="ssn2"><span
class="required">*</span>Re-enter Social Security
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<p><cfinput id="ssn2" class="field" name="ssn2"
type="text" size="10" />
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">Please re-enter
your social security number.</span>
<span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Please enter a
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<span class="confirmInvalidMsg">Social Security
entires do not match.</span></p>
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<p><cfinput class="field" type="submit" name=""
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</script>
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<cfinclude template="/Templates/footer.htm" />
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</div>
</body>
</html>

if you use a cfform this normally overwrites the spry
validation at submit. Call on your cfform the validate() function
on submit action. You should have something like: if
(Spry.Widget.Form.validate(form) == true)....
On submit check if the validate() function returns true or
false. If true, continue submission, if false trigger the spry
validation.
Does anyone have a sample of the code, or more detailed
information on the code reffered to above. I have included my code
below:
<!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"
xmlns:spry="
http://ns.adobe.com/spry/">
<head>
<title>Admissions Application</title>
<cfinclude template="/head/app.htm" />
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container" style="background-image:none;">
<div id="header">
<cfinclude template="/templates/header.htm" />
</div>
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alt="" />
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<cfform method="post" name="app" id="application"
action="" onsubmit="javascript:return ValidateForm(this)"
enctype="x-www-form-urlencoded">
<div id="box">
<h1>I.D. and Name Information</h1>
<p class="section">Section 1 of 7</p>
<h3>Social Security Number</h3>
<div id="thessn">
<label for="ssn"><span
class="required">*</span>Social Security
Number:</label>
<p><cfinput id="ssn" class="field" name="ssn"
type="text" size="10" />
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">Please enter your
social security number.</span>
<span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Please enter a
valid social security number.</span></p>
</div>
<div id="thessn2">
<label for="ssn2"><span
class="required">*</span>Re-enter Social Security
Number:</label>
<p><cfinput id="ssn2" class="field" name="ssn2"
type="text" size="10" />
<span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">Please re-enter
your social security number.</span>
<span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Please enter a
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<span class="confirmInvalidMsg">Social Security
entires do not match.</span></p>
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</script>
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cfinput field against a regular expression on CF8, as follows:
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Automatically, you can include only whole validation in your change request. But, you can create a manual change request for this message only. This definition is stored in GB931 table.
Regards,
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CFFORM (Flash) Validation with Regular Expressions Not Working

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joy.
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quote:
Originally posted by:
Luckbox72
The problem is not the Regex. I have tested 3 or 4 different
versions that all work on the many different test sites. The
problem is it that the validation does not seem to work. I have
changed the patter to only allow NA and I can still type anything
into the text box. Is there some issue with useing Regex as your
validation?
Bear in mind that by default validation does not occur until
the user attempts to submit the form. If you are trying to control
the characters that the user can enter into the textbox, as opposed
to validating what they have entered, you will need to provide your
own javascript validation.

Cfform with cfinput validation producing different error messages

I have a cfm that is using cfform and cfinput. There are 7 text fields and one checkbox. The 7 fields are all required and the checkbox must be checked. Sometimes the javascript behaves differently. Sometimes I get an individual alert for each field that is blank and if the checkbox is not checked.
Most times, the error messages for the fields are grouped and displayed in a single alert. From the looks of the java script that is generated by cold fusion, it should always group the error messages and display them in a single alert.
On the occasions when I get the individual alerts popping up, the validation on the checkbox also does not work. The validation fails whether the checkbox is checked or not.
Tests were conducted in IE9 and Firefox 24 on Windows 7.
Any idea why the java script would work differently? Is it possible there is an old version of CF that is being picked up sometimes?

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I'm getting really upset with the Coldfusion built-in form validation for any HTML formfield ending by _date , _required, _time and so on...
My application proposes to the users to create some Properties for an object and later on to modify the values for all these properties.
I've got a piece of code building dynamically some form fields named just like the properties (by a simple cfloop on a DB query getting the property list).
And a registering page to records the new value in the DB.
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Form entries are incomplete or invalid.
I can't control what the users set as property name (one of them was Checklist_required).
Is there any way to prevent this error by disabling this auto validation ?
(I'd like to avoid having to rename any field dynamically created and rename any forms variables before registering them on the DB : it's just NO WAY for me to rename the properties created by the users)

Fober1, that's not how it works. It's pretty much the ultimate example of the disjoint between how HTML forms work and how the naive CFML Cfform / cfinput design wished they work.
When a request is being processed by the coldfusion server, it just looks at the list of FORM (POST) variable names (whether it came from cfform or not; URL/GET params are exempt), and for those with certain suffixes (_date, _required, etc.), and it assumes their existence is intended to request validation another field without that suffix. It doesn't actually know or care whether form submission, nor the HTML rendered in the user's browser, actually came from "cfform" or "cfinput". The composition of the request that comes in (when a user clicks on "submit", or a hacker uses any tool imaginable) is out of the server's hands. The cfform code is not used during form submission processing, because the receiving template (the form action="this_one.cfm") doesn't even have to be the same template that has the cfform in it. There could be multiple conflicting cfforms directing users to request the same template on a single site, with or without the validation, even without considering what a whole other person might decide to send to your server.
The fact that it can work as intended for a typical user is irrelevant, because the purpose of validation is to deal with the atypical situation. A malicious or merely mischievous user that wanted to circumvent the validation would simply modify a copy of the page to leave out the "validation request" fields. For the developer to truly validate the input, additional code must be written, making the feature not only inadequate, but a complete waste of time. There absolutely should be a way to disable it at worst; Ideally, it would be taken out of coldfusion completely. It's not only useless, it's a security risk, wooing programmers to write code that doesn't do what they think it does.
The error message it gives isn't so great, either, and it's a pity that it can't show more than one validation message at a time, either. If more than one input is invalid, you could end up going through one round after another of submit + back button.
edit: I forgot to add the other important reason that this feature should never have existed: It is a nuisance to everyone else who doesn't want to use it at all, too! Those suffixes simply couldn't have been a worse choice, colliding with probably thousands of peoples' variable names. Why not "*_cfval_date" "*_cfval_time" etc?

Is there a way to hide email on view source when validation error found using validateAt = onServer?

I'm confused!
Here's what I'm doing. I have two seperate files, one is
form.cfm and one is formdo.cfm.
On form.cfm, I have the cfform, that takes a name, email,
phone number, and message and is set with validateAt onSubmit and
onServer with correct syntax in the code. the cfform action is set
to formdo.cfm.
formdo.cfm is the other file that handles all the form data
and uses cfmail to send it to an email address. formdo.cfm grabs
all the input fields from form.cfm and shoots out an email with all
the form inputs. I've tested all of this and it sends an email and
the form contents as it should.
So next, I tested the onServer validation with Javascript
off, and sure enough it told me I had an error and to go back and
fix it.
Good there, except when I viewed the source on the server
validation page, it shows the email address in English even when
encoded with the character entities. However, if you just call this
file up by it's URL/formdo.cfm it shows the character entities that
I entered. I know this is because the server has already
interpreted it but I'm wondering if spambots can steal that
'interpreted' email address and I don't especially like the fact
that a real person can view it in source of the server validation
page. (since I viewed the email address myself in plain english in
the source of the server validation.)
So how can I hide this email besides character entities? Or
are there any other anti-spambot considerations that someone could
offer me?
Thanks for reading this!
Some additional info on the code in formdo.cfm (syntax is
correct in actual code but written out here):
cfmail to = email_as_character_entities
from = POUND_Email_From_Last_Page_POUND

I got it going now, although I gave up my character
entities (which I could've swore were working before I made this
minor change.)
So here's what happened. CF was throwing an 'hidden error' in
the source... it didn't like that email string length wasn't 0 or
more characters. Which got me wondering how that could be if I
entered something like 'invalid' in the email box, why doesn't that
qualify as 7 characters? So then I tried putting a space in the
cfparam for the email="" to now being email = " " now theres a
space in between quotes... and that helped a little but then didn't
really because it was still showing the email with the entities.
Okay, sort of there. Then, I realized is that I left out all of the
isNot possibilities, so I plugged all those in, and bam!, no more
email in the source! Actually, a whole lot less in the source, just
my 'thank you for the message' message without even a reference to
email OR the cf error in the source! Pretty cool! Well, thanks
anyhow for responding anyhow because it's good to know someone is
willing to help! Oh btw, this was all on CF8.

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