[FX.php List] Re: Mysterious asterisks appearing in fields

Gjermund Gusland Thorsen ggt667 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 14:03:08 MST 2007


I would try to make a new table with just those two fields and check
if the problem still exists...

ggt667

On 3/9/07, Chris Bisgard <cbisgard at racc.org> wrote:
>
> > That sure looks like some kind of auto-enter option in FileMaker.
>
> I thought so, too, but I am 100% certain there is no auto-enter setup in
> those fields. I specifically made a new database and defined the fields
> myself to rule out any such settings. There are no options set in any of
> the field definition screens, except to define both fields as text
> fields.
>
>
> > This may be off the subject, but doesn't a text input in a form need
> > a value attribute?
> > <input name="OrgContact" type="text" id="OrgContact" value="">
>
> I wasn't aware a blank text input needed a value attribute unless you
> were going to do some javascript on it. I'm pretty sure I have pages
> that have passed validation without that attribute, but I certainly may
> be wrong. I tried adding value="" to both text inputs, and it didn't
> help.
>
> > What happens if you add this to your FX query?
> >       $q->FMUseCURL ($useCURL = false);
>
> No change. I still get the same result with asterisks (which, BTW, are
> starting to resemble little gremlins wherever I see them, ha).
>
> This is interesting, though... Thinking about the "value" attribute, I
> went ahead and validated my page at w3.org (after adding a DOCTYPE) just
> to see what I'd get back. I knew my code probably wasn't going to pass,
> but the errors I got back from the validator were REALLY weird, telling
> me that the <head> and <form> tags weren't closed, telling me I'd used
> various kinds of markup where it wasn't allowed, and others. Does that
> sound like a page encoding problem? I'm still worried my Windows IIS
> settings are screwing with encoding.
>
> Chris
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