I have joked before that a lot can ride on a missing ” but I didn’t head my own warning.

I have been trying to get the form on my site to validate for days. Literally days. I have been pulling my hair out going over the code letter by letter, I tried several different types of Javascript codes - and all the time I secretly wondered:

Is it possible to validate a form with Javascript and then send it to be processed by PHP?

I began to think not. No matter how much I tried I could just not get my form to use javascript and PHP at the same time.

Then  I discovered the culprit. A missing “.

So in case you were wondering it is possible. And having scoured the internet and tested almost every script - I can say I found one of the easiest ones:

This little script will test if you have empty space in a form:

function validate_form ( )
{
valid = true;

if ( document.NAMEOFFORM.NAMEOFINPUT.value == “” )
{
alert ( “Please fill in the your first name” );
valid = false;
}

Then all you need to is reference it in your form like thus:

<form name=”NAMEOFFORM” method=”post” onsubmit=”return validate_form ( );” action=”YOURFILE.php”>

And REMEMBER that darned ” after your validate_form()