function call on submit

[Ron Eggler]

Hi,

I have a function call in my form tag like this:
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"
name="myform" id="myform" onsubmit="return chkform()">

and the function looks like:
<script type="text/javascript">
function chkform()
{
if (document.myform.first_name.value == "")
{
alert("Please enter your firstname!");
document.Formular.first_name.focus();
return false;
}
if (document.myform.last_name.value == "")
{
alert("Please enter your lastname!");
document.Formular.last_name.focus();
return false;
}
....
....
....
alert("SUBMIT!");
return true;
}
</script>

It can be checked out here: http://www.dvdnowkiosks.com/tmp/form.php
The form gets submitted even tho the function returns false, why this???
As soon as you hit the OK button from the alert box, data get submitted to
the php, why this? It shouldn't, no? What am i doing wrongly?

Thank you!
Ron

 

[Lee]

Ron Eggler said:

Hi,

I have a function call in my form tag like this:
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"
name="myform" id="myform" onsubmit="return chkform()">

and the function looks like:
<script type="text/javascript">
function chkform()
{
if (document.myform.first_name.value == "")
{
alert("Please enter your firstname!");
document.Formular.first_name.focus();

What is "document.Formular"?
Shouldn't that (and similar references) be "document.myform" ?

(Disregarding the questionableness of using fully qualified
form references, rather than passing a reference to the
function)


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[Ron Eggler]

Ron Eggler said:

Hi,

I have a function call in my form tag like this:
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"
name="myform" id="myform" onsubmit="return chkform()">

and the function looks like:
<script type="text/javascript">
function chkform()
{
if (document.myform.first_name.value == "")
{
alert("Please enter your firstname!");
document.Formular.first_name.focus();

What is "document.Formular"?
Shouldn't that (and similar references) be "document.myform" ?

(Disregarding the questionableness of using fully qualified
form references, rather than passing a reference to the
function)


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This actually fixed it... Omg......
Thanks for the hint!
Ron