Smarty

[BobS]

I'm creating a form that requires the user's State and Country. US and Canadian visitors will supply their state or province, whereas this is not necessary for other countries.

I cannot find a way to make the validation work so that if the country dropdown is US or Canada, then it will require a state to be selected in the state dropdown. If it is not one of these countries then the field is not required.

I didn't see a mechanism through which you could 'throw' an error, since that would seem to solve the problem.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[BobS]

bump. Any ideas?

[BobS]

No response, so I figured out a workaround in the meantime. I broke the form up into two validation forms, default and StateID. The validator for StateID is dummyNotValid, a new validator I added. It returns false at all times. I run the validation on the default form first. Then, I do checking to see if the country is US and the state is not selected. If so, the state is invalid, so I validate the StateID form, which always returns false and throws the error I need. If the default form is good and the state ID is properly configured, I don't 'validate' the form. In this manner I can throw an error whenever I decide, via code logic, that an error is warranted. This gets me around the limitations of the SmartyValidate class.

Comments/suggestions/improvements welcome.

[mohrt]

[BobS]

That makes sense. This wasn't clear from looking at the documentation. I didn't see any way to make the custom validator aware of the value of another field on the form. Can you point me to a specific example? Thanks.

[mohrt]

All of the available formvars are passed into the validator as a parameter.

[BobS]

Understood, thank you.