Re: [PEAR] QuickForm + "soft" rules.

On 5/27/05, Edward Grace <ej.grace@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> Has anyone else come across the need to add "soft" (rules that the user c=
an
> choose to override) validation rules to QuickForm objects?
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> What I mean by this is a typical scenario where you may have a rule that
> checks that a person has entered their name according to some case format=
ting
> so for example.
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>  Surname
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> Rather than
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>  sURnaMe
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> There are however situations where the case formatting of a surname could=
not
> fit into the typical box of "capital first letter, the rest lowercase" he=
nce
> not being able to use a filter rule.  For example the surnames
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>  van Blogger
>  al Tranger
>  McTaggert
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> Clearly break this "convention".  Of course one could add exceptions for
> "van", "al" "Mc" prefixes but you still can't guarentee catching them all
> with a "strong" validation rule.
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> What would be useful is to have a soft validation rule whereby, if it fai=
ls
> the usual message appears along with a checkbox saying "Yes I really want=
to
> submit this" that would override the associated rule.
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> This can be done with some hacking about using groups, rules etc but it w=
ould
> be nice to have a addSoftRule() method, or some such that would generate =
the
> appropriate elements if the validation failed, and deal with overriding t=
he
> rule if the checkbox is set.
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> Have people looked at this before?  I imagine it is a common want.
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Sounds like a great idea. In fact, it's a *little* like the
preValidationCallback option I added to my SubForm element. I'll see
if I can find a few minutes to see if I can hack something up.

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Justin Patrin