When using the newer browsers that support HTML5 (FireFox 4 for example); and a form field has the attribute required=’required’; and the form field is empty/blank; and the submit button is clicked; the browsers detects that the “required” field is empty and does not submit the form; instead browser shows a hint asking the user … Read more
I’ve created a custom registration form for a WordPress MultiSite installation. It allows registrations of new blogs and users. I want to check with ajax if a given username is available. This is what I have so far: add_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘pb_ajax_add_js’ ); function pb_ajax_add_js() { // add script to the footer wp_enqueue_script( ‘pb_ajax’, plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ … Read more
I would like to know how to perform a proper validation with the register_setting() callback function. Here is a sample part of my code I want to work with: register_setting( ‘wpPart_options’, ‘wpPart_options’, array( &$this, ‘wpPartValidate_settings’ ) ); $this is an array of objects. And here is the content of my wpPartValidate_settings(); function. public function wpPartValidate_settings( … Read more
i am tring to load some jquery code to make validation in the theme customizer. i have created 10 checkboxes to show some info. but i want to limited the user to choose only 5 checkboxes. so i have created jquery code to do so, and this code works fine when i put this code … Read more
I can’t figure out the the code for – How to retain the values from dropdown category lists after wrong form submission? Any suggesstions, thanx in advance. <select class=”selectpicker btn-block” name=”coupon_cat” id=”category” > <option selected value=””> Категори Сонгох</option> <?php $args[‘exclude’] = “12,20”; // omit these two categories $categories = get_categories($args); foreach($categories as $category) { ?> … Read more
I’ve carefully read the JSON description http://json.org/ but I’m not sure I know the answer to the simple question. What strings are the minimum possible valid JSON? “string” is the string valid JSON? 42 is the simple number valid JSON? true is the boolean value a valid JSON? {} is the empty object a valid … Read more
im working on my comment section and I have added a custom field <input type=”hidden” name=”be_user_star_rating” id=”be_user_star_rating” value=”” /> Its value is beign set by Javascript. Validating it with something like this: add_action( ‘comment_post’, ‘be_comment_rating_insert_comment’, 10, 1 ); function be_comment_rating_insert_comment( $comment_id ) { if( isset( $_POST[‘be_user_star_rating’] ) && $_POST[‘be_user_star_rating’] > 0 && $_POST[‘be_user_star_rating’] <= 5 … Read more
My end goal is to validate an input field. The input may be either alphabetic or numeric. 14 Answers 14
What is optimal HTTP response Code when not reporting 200 (everything OK) but error in input? Like, you submit some data to server, and it will response that your data is wrong using 500 looks more like Server Issue using 200 with warning/error response text is bad (allowing caching and everything is not OK) using … Read more
In my admin panel, if I use a sanitizing callback register_setting() and the field does not pass through my custom validation, I’ve been preventing the database from updating by using return FALSE; and adding an error with add_settings_error(). How do I return the invalid values back to the form fields that the user submitted, so … Read more
