Altering a script

[Burgin]

I'm trying to alter a script that verifies entries in a Form2Email.


The name of one of the fields is 'captcha-text' which stops the verifying script from working ie...
if (document.message.captcha-text.value == "")


If I change it to 'captchatext' the verifying script then works fine but the Form2Email script stops working ie...
if (document.message.captchatext.value == "")


It's clearly the hyphen within the field name that's the problem and if I change all references to it in the Form2Email script the script stops working so I've got to make the verifying script accept the name 'captcha-text'.

Anyone any idea how I can make it work?

[forum_amnesiac]

You could try using a hidden input field, ie call the validation field 'captchatext' but have a field <input type="hidden" name="captcha-text" id="captcha-text"> ans set the value of this to that same as 'captchatext'.

This should pass the variable "captcha-text" to the email processor

[Burgin]

Thanks forum_amnesiac

I know how to set the value of a hidden field if it's the same value everytime but the captcha-text is entered by the user and is different each time so how would I change the value of the hidden field from the entry field captchatext

[forum_amnesiac]

You could add something like


if (document.message.captchatext.value!=""){
document.message.captcha-text.value = document.message.captchatext.value;
}

into the code you have above, or create a separate function of this that is called before the form is submitted.

[Burgin]

Thanks alot it's put me in the right direction

[Burgin]

I'm still having problems with that hyphen in a field name

this works fine...

<input type="text" name="captchatext" size=15 value="" onChange="this.form.captcha2text.value=this.value;">
and puts the value of field captchatext into a field named captcha2text

but as soon as I change the field name to captcha-text it stops working ie...

<input type="text" name="captchatext" size=15 value="" onChange="this.form.captcha-text.value=this.value;">

As anyone any ideas why?

[forum_amnesiac]

Sorry my fault, javascript doesn't like hyphenated variables.

It depends on whether your PHP mailer uses field names or field Id's, if it uses the ID then give the field a name without a hyphen and set the value by the name in javascript.

Vice versa if it uses the name.

I can't remember off the top of my head but I think there is a method to refer to a field by it's name or it's Id in javascript