| Edward Grace 2005-05-27, 8:56 am |
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Has anyone else come across the need to add "soft" (rules that the user can=
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choose to override) validation rules to QuickForm objects?
What I mean by this is a typical scenario where you may have a rule that=20
checks that a person has entered their name according to some case formatti=
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so for example.
Surname
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sURnaMe
There are however situations where the case formatting of a surname could n=
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fit into the typical box of "capital first letter, the rest lowercase" henc=
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not being able to use a filter rule. For example the surnames
van Blogger
al Tranger
McTaggert
Clearly break this "convention". Of course one could add exceptions for=20
"van", "al" "Mc" prefixes but you still can't guarentee catching them all=20
with a "strong" validation rule.
What would be useful is to have a soft validation rule whereby, if it fails=
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the usual message appears along with a checkbox saying "Yes I really want t=
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submit this" that would override the associated rule.
This can be done with some hacking about using groups, rules etc but it wou=
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be nice to have a addSoftRule() method, or some such that would generate th=
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appropriate elements if the validation failed, and deal with overriding the=
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rule if the checkbox is set.
Have people looked at this before? I imagine it is a common want.
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