August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
38h 8m
English
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Data Validation
One
of the big benefits of using CFFORM over standard
HTML forms is the built-in data validation that is available. Both
the CFINPUT and CFTEXTINPUT
tags have an attribute called VALIDATE that
accepts any of the following values:
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CreditCard Validates the form field data using the mod10 algorithm. Credit-card numbers can be entered as a single number or with dashes or spaces. ColdFusion automatically strips dashes and spaces before validating.
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Date Requires the form-field value to be in the U.S. date format mm/dd/yyyy.
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EuroDate Requires the form-field value to be in the European date format dd/mm/yyyy.
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Float Requires the form-field value to be a floating-point number.
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Integer Requires the form-field value to be an integer.
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Social_Security_Number Requires the form-field value to be a U.S. social security number in the format xxx-xx-xxxx or xxx xx xxxx.
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Telephone Requires the form-field value to be a U.S. telephone number formatted either xxx-xxx-xxxx or xxx xxx xxxx. The area code and exchange are required to begin with a number in the range of 1-9.
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Time Requires that the form-field value be entered as a valid time using the format hh:mm:ss.
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ZipCode Requires that the form-field value be entered as either a five- or nine-digit U.S. ZIP code using the format xxxxx, xxxxx-xxxx, or xxxxx xxxx.
In addition to the
VALIDATE attribute, the CFINPUT
and CFTEXTINPUT tags as well as the
CFGRID, CFSLIDER, and
CFTREE tags support an additional attribute for ...
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