MX Form Validation features

Dreamweaver integration

• Comprehensive error validation library
  · E-mail, various credit card types, ZIP codes and number formats.
  · Regular expressions (RegExp) and MASK validation formats.
  · Automatically filter the validation formats depending on your table field type to allow easy validation rule selection for each field.

• Integration with Insert and Update Record Form Wizards
• Server Behavior for validating a form
  
  

• User InterAKT Dynamic Data to specify minimum and maximum size for a field
  
  

Form generation features

• Highlight form elements, label, table cell or the whole form when an error is detected.
  
  

• Form built using CSS and HTML code - Easy to change to meet your style.
• Include required and optional fields in your form.
• Display hints for form elements - Suggest what content should be entered in a particular field:
  
  

• Customize errors
  · Use CSS design to customize your error messages. Define different colors and insert HTML tags to better display your messages for maximum effect.

Page behavior

• Improve form validation rules
  · Comprehensive formats library for date, time, text and numeric.
  · Support for regular expression rules.
  · Support for user defined MASKS using X,A,9 and any other characters.
  · Minimum and maximum values for numbers and dates.
  · Min and Max length for text field.
  
  

• Compare form fields dynamically - For example end_date>{start_date}.
• Improved form display mechanisms - Show hints on how to fill in the form (required fields, validation formats).
• Improved error display mechanism
  · Show global form errors on top of the pages
  
  
  
  · Show field errors inside the form
  · The error messages are improved from "The value of the field is incorrect" to "Please enter a valid Credit card number".
  
  

• Client side form validation
  · The form content is validated from the client's side, when the user inputs data and tries to submit the form. JavaScript code is "behind the scenes", enhances the form on new browsers, but it remains usable on old browsers.
• Improved Server side validation
  · Present a general error and also highlights the field with the wrong inserted value.
• Supports custom errors
  · While we provide generic error messages for most of the validation rules, you can also choose to change them and adapt them to your needs.
• Preserves database integrity
  · Check if a specific value is unique. E.g.: Check that user e-mail is unique on registration.
  · Delete detail records along with master records - E.g.: Once you delete a company also delete its contacts.
  · Check Master or Detail records when doing insert, update or delete.

Standard compliance

• Fully CSS Compatible generated code.
• WAI compliant generated code (Web Accessibility Initiative).
• W3C compliant generated code.

Compatibility

• Multiple browser compatibility: MSIE 5.5 or more, Netscape 6.0 or more, Opera 7 or more, Firefox , Safari, Mozilla , Camino.
• Support for the ColdFusion, ASP_VBScript , PHP_MySQL and PHP_ADODB server models.
• Works on Windows and MAC.
• Works on all database servers.

Documentation

• Integrated Dreamweaver help (search, index, glossary).
• Step by step tutorials with real-life applications.
• Comprehensive user manual.