trying to validate input

**danwguy** · 2011-06-23, 07:28 PM

I set up a very quick easy validation using javascript onblur event to pop up an alert message and focus on the field that needs to be fixed, I just added a 'javascript' tag in the detailview.php file. What I would like to do though is instead of having an alert pop up I woul dlike it to just say the message next to the field that is wrong and focus on that field. I know there are a ton of jquery libraries that can do that, but I am pretty new at sugarcrm and not sure how to go about implimenting that into it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

**rafael.q.g@hotmail.com** · 2011-06-24, 02:57 AM

You have to edit your detail/edit view files to adjust the code for the fields you want to validate. For each field you want to validade, you can add a custoCode atribute, that has to render the field, and also has to add a div at its side. Then your javascript function instead of alert on screen, could set the message into this div, assign the validation message to the innerHTML div attribute.

Exemple of customCode:

PHP Code:

 'customCode' => '<input type="text" name="field_name"   id="field_name" value="$fields->field_name->value"> <div id="field_name_validation_message"> </div> '

Exemple of valitation messahe display:

HTML Code:

document.getElementById("field_name_validation_message").innerHTML="your_message";

**danwguy** · 2011-06-24, 04:28 PM

So far so good, now I just need to add the javascript include in the <head> tags. I have tried going into the editviewdefs.php and adding"
'includes' => array(
0 =>
array(
'file' => 'custom/modules/CT221_SEP_test/livevalidation_standalone.js',
),
1 =>
array(
'file' => 'custom/modules/CT221_SEP_test/validate.js',
),
),
"
but it doesn't include those two files in the page anywhere. Any advice on getting those two files into the <head></head> tags? please. Thank you.

Also when I use that value="$fields->google_account_value" it literally puts that exact text into the input box. how would I get the value that's supposed to be there there? Thank you again for all your help

**rafael.q.g@hotmail.com** · 2011-06-24, 05:45 PM

You can add the external javascript files to your application with this code:

PHP Code:

 [....]

'EditView' =>

            array(

                'templateMeta' =>

                array(

                    'includes' =>

                        array (

                        0 =>

                        array (

                            'file' => 'my_file_1.js',

                        ),

                        1 =>

                        array (

                            'file' => 'my_file_2.js',

                        ),

                        ),

[...]

**dkinzer** · 2011-09-28, 03:30 PM

Rafael, this was very useful. Thanks.

I can even add javascript via a URL call, like:

PHP Code:

       'includes' => 

      array (

        0 => 

        array (

          'file' => 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.min.js',

        ),

I have two questions:

Where is the best place to override if I want to include custom javascript on every page that has a form?

Also, I'm wondering what happens to these files if I make a change in Studio. Does my change get overwritten?

Best regards,

David

**rafael.q.g@hotmail.com** · 2011-09-29, 12:06 PM

The java script files included using the 'includes' are not overwritten by changes done on studio, this informations are keeped.

If you want to add a javascript file in all pages, I don't know any safe upgrade way to do it, but you can change the file include/MVC/view/SugarView.php adding in some function as displayFooter, the HTML code to include your javascript file (<script src="path"></script>).

**dkinzer** · 2011-09-29, 02:01 PM

Thanks again,

David

**dkinzer** · 2011-12-09, 03:01 PM

It's a pretty simple matter to override that onclick event with jQuery as well:

Code:

 $(':input#SAVE_FOOTER').attr('onClick', 'return false;');$

Clearly this example would only stop the form from submitting, but you get the picture.

**dkinzer** · 2011-12-12, 03:58 PM

Ultimately the above technique never really worked for me, because even though my custom_check_form would be called, that only happens if the user clicks on the button. If the user just hits ENTER (char=13) then using the above technique doesn't work.

What worked for me was to override the Sugar check_form with:

Code:

  // Override SUGAR check_form function.$
  sugar_check_form = check_form;$
  check_form = function(form) {$
    return (sugar_check_form(form) && custom_check_form());~~$
  }$

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