Ajax and Forms

[jmarcv]

Lemme guess, the site you just redid was tables and you're converting them to CSS?

LOL! That and AJAXIFY it.

Damn. I should have charged more!

Well, we cant always expect our clients to pay for our education. You'll have good tools after this one.

This works, but a bit hackish....

Yeah.... not a good idea....

The problem i'm having with using one 'anyerror' var is that when an element is correct, it changes the anyerror back to true.

Hmmm..... are you sure????
anyerrors=(!ok ? true : anyerrors);
What this should do is, set anyerrors to false first then, if we get a 'false' (!ok) from the validation, we set anyerrors to true.
If the validation returns tru, then we just do a dummy operation of making anyerrors equal anyerrors.
Problem is, if your validation doesn't return anything, I think THAT is the problem. Try this instead
anyerrors=(ok==false ? true : anyerrors);
This way if you slipped and did not return an explicit true, which I will bet is the issue here, it will explicitly look for a false.
!ok is false, OR no value.

[charlesh]

Jmarc,

I think I did what you mention above, just a bit backhanded way of getting there. First, I set all error vars to "true" that way, each validation function has to explicitly make them true or leave them false:

 var usernameerror=true;
    var pworderror=true;
    var emailerror=true;
    var firstnameerror=true;
    var lastnameerror=true;

By the way, I found out the hard way about variable declaration as it relates to scope in JavaScript. Weird thing is that if you declare a variable with the word 'var' inside a function, it is private. To make it global, drop the var. Strange how that works. Outside a function, variables are global. How 'bout that? Strange and bewildering.

Anyway, I'm still trying to wrap my head around your way. Give me a little more time with it... and thanks again!