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[Kenneth Downs]

David Krings wrote:
> tedd wrote:
>> At 12:16 PM -0600 12/11/07, Tony Furnivall wrote:
>>> Newbie request -
>>> Any pointers? ideas? suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Yes, use javascript and inform the user in real-time and before they 
>> send the junk to the server. Of course, you then have to scrub and 
>> clean everything, but you would have to anyway.
>>
>
> That works OK for something like a date or making sure that a 
> mandatory entry exists, but for example for a user name that has to be 
> unique you need to check it against your tables. Can't do that with 
> ECMAScript.

It helps to picture it this way:

1. Javascript is for user convenience, avoid submitting mismatched 
passwords, malformed dates and so forth.
2. Server checks are about integrity, unique, referential and other 
constraints


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> David
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