Web to Lead Form does not validate

[kenlyle]

In Sugar OS 4.5.1d, I have a web form that is passing the entered fields correctly. I had only one required field when I generated the form from Sugar, which was Last Name. I generated the form on 4.5.1c, I think, or maybe b, if that matters.

What seems to be different about the required field is this HTML: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="required">*</span>

So I put that into the corresponding position on two other fields, and they show up with the red asterisks, as expected.

The required fields are all now like:
<td style="text-align: left; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;" width="15%"><span sugar="slot">First Name: </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="required">*</span></td>

Problem is that the fields are not truly required, only Last Name is.

What do I need to do to make the other fields required?

Thanks,
Ken

[sacramentojoe]

You need to edit the vardefs.php and set required => true.

if it's a custom field, you need to edit it and make it required as well.

[kenlyle]

Hmmm. Thanks. OK, I see how that could work, but I don't really want to chanage how the Sugar database backend works, I just want to make the fields required in the HTML form.

I made the other fields have the same "class", which is apparently a font color of red, and then the asterisk.

I thought that the HTML/Javascript was reading the fields in the local file checking for required class, but then I thought it must be checking the vardefs....apparently, both were wrong...

So I modified the vardefs.php under Leads, putting
'required'=>true,
after type, just like the records that were already there, but No Joy, the form still does not validate. It will take a single letter into the First Name field and then pass through to the document that is the reward for filling the form.

I regenerated the form, and found that the critical code/lines seems to be of the form:

<tr>
<td style="display: none;"><input value="email1;first_name;last_name;" name="req_id" id="req_id" type="hidden"></td>
</tr>

That hidden field contains the array of required fields, which is what the code is checking.

Thanks for the tip.

Ken

[sacramentojoe]

Ken, you say that it will take a single character in the first name field and then pass through. That sounds right to me. You are stating that it's required, 1 character meets the validation. How about with nothing in the first name field?

Oh, and on a note, I'm not sure if it matters or not but in my vardefs.php, true is treated as a string, not a boolean.

[kenlyle]

Oh, sorry, I was unclear.

With 3 fields marked with the appropriate required class in the HTML, and entering only one character in one required field and NOTHING in the other two, it was passing through.

As I later found, the issue was that I was missing the req_id array as described above.

So it's now solved, but that clarifies what I was seeing, and why I was interpreting it as wrong.

Thanks, SacJoe!
K

[sacramentojoe]

Glad you figured it out. Have a good one.

[markb1439]

I'm having a strange issue with form validation. If a user tries to submit the form without meeting the validation criteria, the warning appears. But when the user clicks "OK", before they can enter any more info the form is sent anyway.

Example:

http://www.codecsunlimited.com/sales-inquiry.html

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark B.

[monkeyfish]

Where can I find the vardefs.php file?