March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
15h 52m
English
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Client-Side Validation with JavaScript
In
this section, we briefly introduce the JavaScript scripting language
as a client-side method for validation and other simple tasks.
JavaScript isn’t a fully fledged programming
language like PHP: it can’t connect to databases,
it’s limited as to which system resources it can
interact with, and it can’t do most tasks a web
database application requires. However, JavaScript is good for
interacting with a <form> and for
controlling the display of data to the user.
Note
The client-side scripting language we use here is best known as Java-Script. However, in June 1998, the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) agreed to be responsible for the standard implementations of the scripting language by Microsoft, Netscape, and Sun. Accordingly, the real name of the language is now ECMA-Script, based on the standard ECMA-262. The most recent version of ECMA-262 is the third edition, dated December 1999.
Common uses of JavaScript in web database applications include:
Validation of
<form>data, the main topic of this section.Simple interaction with
<form>data; e.g., JavaScript is often used to calculate values and display these in a data-entry widget.Enhancing user interactions by adding dynamic elements to a web page. Common features include pull-down menus, mouseover changes to the presentation (rollovers ), and dialog boxes.
Customizing the browser and using information from the browser to enhance presentation.
Most of these techniques ...
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