Required field validation not working

Gurus,
I've made fields mandatory on dozens of forms in the past without any issue.
I'm currently developing a custom form with Disposition values which are required. My "create" page indicates the fields are required with an astrick but is not enforcing the value after clicking on my "apply" button.
Any ideas?
This is happening for both client side and server side. Disable Server side validation is set to "false".
Thanks,
Scott
Edited by: sreese on Nov 29, 2010 2:56 PM

After further analysis, I was able to resolve myself:
Set "Apply" button Disable Server Side Validation and Disable Client Side Validation = False.

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                    ?>
<form method="post" action="<?php $PHP_SELF ?>" id="commentForm">
<input name="name" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?>" type="text">
                     <?php if(isset($errName)) echo $errName; ?>
<input name="email" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST["email"]; ?>" type="text">
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<input name="phone" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST["phone"]; ?>" type="text" id="phone">
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<input name="city" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST["city"]; ?>" type="text" id="city">
<input name="state" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST["state"]; ?>" type="text" id="state">
<textarea name="comment" cols="30" rows="10" id="comment"><?php echo $_POST["comment"]; ?></textarea>
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.oO(BarryGBrown)
> I have a php file which generates an email from a form
in a website I have
>designed. I just want to make some areas of the final
generated email in bold
>text. I know if people have plain text only selected in
their email client they
>won't see the bold text, but at least it will reach a
certain percentage of
>users.
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that -
plain text. For anything more you need HTML. _If_ you should
need it.
Usually plain text serves pretty well and is the most
efficient way.
> the line in question is -
>
> $body ="Booking request details from website:\n\n";
>
> I have tried putting and ,
syntax is used in some forum software, but besides that it
has
no meaning whatsoever.
>inside the inverted commas, outside
>etc, plus tried different declarations within the
<head>, nothing works! What
>am I doing wrong?
You would have to create an entire HTML email with all the
required
headers and boundaries. Quite difficult to do by hand with
PHP's mail()
function.
> I am a beginner with this php stuff, please be kind!
Then you should start simple with plain text. There are some
classes out
there which make it easy to generate text and HTML emails
(phpmailer for
example), but you should be familiar with PHP coding if you
want to use
them.
Micha

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