Formmail "required" problem

chunter

This may be a little niche, but...

I'm trying to get a little more extravagant with Matt's formmail, but I'm having problems with the "required" field, where you list mandatory fields in the form.

Works ok for simple type "text" but I can't get it to work for

<input type="hidden" name="required" value="cars">

Have you a car?*

<td><select name="cars" id="cars">
<option selected>choose</option>
<option value="1">Yes</option>
<option value="2">No</option>
</select></td>


This is currently accepting "choose" as ok, but I want to force the user to return a value, preferably "Yes/No", bit "1/2" would be fine.

What am I doing wrong?

marka87uk

Can you not set the 'choose' to a value of 0, then use an if statement in the php to check the value, and if it is 0, then return the user to the page?

Chippy_Minton

You'll have to remove the 'Choose' option because, to the FormMail script, that represents a non-blank value being passed and satisfies the 'required' option. Use this:

<select name="cars" id="cars">
<option></option>
<option value="Yes">Yes</option>
<option value="No">No</option>
</select>

Have you looked at nms FormMail? It's an improved and direct replacement for Matt's FormMail. Even better and more flexible is TFMail. Both these scripts can be downloaded from http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml.