[FX.php List] Leading zero getting dropped in a login

[Jon Montgomery]

Steve,
    You are correct.  That login form was my summer testing login and I
never tested with a leading zero AFTER I put the javascript validation set
at numeric.  After I changed it to Alphanumeric, everything was ok.  And the
user that had the problem was on a different page and the only way she could
have had a problems was to delete that leading zero.  I tested it AFTER I
changed my javascript and had no problem.  So it was more of BRAIN PANIC on
my end as to my users.  I had a good night sleep and wouldn't have if not
for your and the others help.

Thanks ALL!

Jon Montgomery


On 1/29/08 1:40 AM, "Steve Winter" <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi Jon,
> 
> You can still validate that the field only contains numeric characters, you
> just can't treat it as a number, so you'd have to check each character
> that's being submitted is within the charset [0-9]...
> 
> As to 'why now', my guess is that it's not just started happening now, but
> that nobody got round to telling you till now...
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 28 January 2008 22:29
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> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Leading zero getting dropped in a login
> 
> Steve,
>     Thank you.  I change the javascript validation to Alphanumeric (if they
> entered any letters it would kick them out anyway as there are no user id's
> with letters in them.).
>     But why did it just now start causing a problem?  We used this same
> system last year for the first time. No problems and it just started today.
> As I looked through the data base, there are other users with leading zeros
> entered and they never got, (or told me) an error?  Oh well, it works now, I
> hope.
> 
>     Thank you so much!
> 
> Jon Montgomery
> 
> 
> On 1/28/08 4:23 PM, "Steve Winter" <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz> wrote:
> 
>> If you see it vanish from the field when you click submit, then it's
>> certainly the javascript... probably because you're validating it as a
>> number, in which case it can't start with 0...
> 
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