I am troubleshooting a module and was having trouble validating some required form fields in Xoops 2.3 and 2.4 which worked fine in Xoops 2.0.18.

For example, DHTML text-areas and select menus would not validate if set as required (true).

The relevent xoopsform classes are:

formdhtmltextarea.php and
formselect.php

Looking at the difference between the Xoops versions, I found that the validation script function 'renderValidationJS()' had been added to these classes.

Unfortunately, I think this is causing a conflict with the same script invoked elsewhere in the form, perhaps the main 'form' class?.

When I remove the script function from these classes everything works perfectly.

Actually, the function is present in 'formdhtmltextarea.php' in Xoops 2.0.18.2 too. I was originally using a plain text area.

Likewise, if I comment it out, the validation works.

@Peekay;

You have an example of code this will break the validation?

John

Hi Catzwolf

In the module I'm working on, the DHTML editor code appears like this:



I found that in Xoops 2.0.18.2, the validation worked for the plain text editor, but not the DHTML editor. I thought the editor might need a more direct 'true' condition, so I changed it to this:



But still only the plain text area validated as required.

When I looked at the classes in 2.0.18.2 , The only difference I could see was that the validation function was included in 'formdhtmltextarea.php', but not in 'formtextarea.php'.

When I commented the function out in 'formdhtmltextarea.php', it worked.

Same with Xoops 2.3 and 2.4.

I guess it could be a conflict in the module somewhere, but the code seems valid. I am looking for another module where the DHTML editor field is required, just in case it is an anomoly!

Tiny bump.

Has also been reported here.