As an example, if you've got a form that says "rank the following ten items from most important (1) to least important (9)", they must sum to 45.

Completly unrelatedly, what I really think the world needs is a form validation module that will both validate the form after it's submitted for security, and generate JS to validate the form before submittion to be nice for the user.

Hmm, that's an interesting idea, I'll see if I can think of a way to incorperate it... Thanks



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I have the solution to this suggestion. I'm changing the way you select your element to optionally be an array ref. eg: -element => 'hi'; or -element => ['hi1','hi2'] will both work.

Custom tests will have the option of accepting arguments one at a time, or several at once, I plan to use prototyping for this.

Comments, suggestions?



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My code doesn't have bugs, it just develops random features.

Flame ~ Lead Programmer: GMS | GMS

Completly unrelatedly, what I really think the world needs is a form validation module that will both validate the form after it's submitted for security, and generate JS to validate the form before submittion to be nice for the user.

Actually, what the world needs is less of these CGI.pm-style modules that try and do too much at once. Separate tasks, like generating javascript and doing server-side validation, should be in separate modules. Going the other way results in reduced reusability in the components and does nothing to solve the problem.

But that's just another anonymous monk's opinion.

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and generate JS to validate the form before submittion to be nice for the user.

Keep in mind it's very nice to the server as well. I don't have stats on it (would it matter if I did?) but I'm betting client-side validation would at least cut requests for the script in half.

I could still rank them 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. If this is permissible, why would it be unacceptable to make it 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0? Of course, that just shows the example is bad and does not really discredit the idea.

Makeshifts last the longest.

'"$x+$y == 42"? I'm interested in what you're saying, but you lost me, what would you be attempting to validate?'

The meaning of life, the universe and everything, perhaps? ;)

Or do you think that's a little too ambitious for Perl?

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