Surprise Success
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It’s thoroughly amazing the attention my form validator plugin has received in the first week of its launch. Originally a small plugin I wrote for personal use, I was motivated to make it a releasable plugin by some co workers. I thought with the mass of validation tools out there that mine would get swept under the rug.
I guess simple easy to use plugins make a splash when thrown in the pond. Within its first seven days my form validator has received close to 1000 pageviews and about 100 downloads. That is not accounting for the people who downloaded the demo from Jquery.com. Not bad for a site with 0 visitors a month ago. The only thing I could wish for is more feedback from those using it.
I’d like to know how you feel about the documentation included with form validator. Was it really easy to get up and running? Any other validation methods you qould like to see? Let me know! I want to hear from you! Heck just head to my contact page and kill 2 birds with 1 stone: demo and feedback.
Posted on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008. Category: Bus Ride Posts, Form Validator, Jquery Plugins
February 9th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Regarding to the validation plugin, it really lacks documentation.
The idea to mark rules with styles violates separation of the code and presentation concept of MVC and N-Tier models.
February 9th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Grigori,
I have meant to write up some documentation for the plugin, though I think at this point it is easy enough to implement with the instructions included in the zip.
How exactly does my code violate the MVC model? The styles used in the form validator are provided if you wish to style them. You don’t have to. How would you convey to the user that they filled out a field incorrectly? A popup box? A new page?
The form validator provides a clean and user friendly way to alert users when they incorrectly fill a form. If you feel this doesn’t help you then by all means find something that doesn’t use styles or presentation elements to alert users.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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August 12th, 2009 at 8:47 am
The strange thing is that you are not using your form validator on this comment form !
This is the very first jquery plugin I have used, as I am new to jquery, and I am impressed with how simple it is to implement however I have 1 issue when tabbing through my form my fields are left with a red (invalid) box surrounding them even if I use ‘novalid’.
This even happens with your own example that I downloaded. Is this a bug or am I missing something ?
August 12th, 2009 at 9:59 am
OK I have fixed the above bug. Because you validate all fields,not sure why only when handling with AJAX, if the field was empty it was flagged as invalid so I added a check for class ‘is_required’ and length = 0,’if($(this).hasClass(’is_required’) && $val.length === 0)’, now its fine thanks….
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