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Zebra_Form, version 2.8.2 now available

Stefan Gabos — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:56:25 +0000

Here’s what’s new in version 2.8.2: the upload rule now has also a client-side validation side, where it checks if the indicated path exists and is writable; fixed a bug for file uploads where, if the name of the uploaded file was too long, the “x” for canceling was not visible anymore; fixed a bug where, after selecting a file, by clicking very close to the file’s name, users could open the file picker again, resulting in bogus visuals; fixed a bug which made the file name not to appear for an upload control having “upload” as the sole attached rule; updated Zebra_DatePicker to version 1.3.2

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Zebra_Form, version 2.8.1 now available

Stefan Gabos — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:12:14 +0000

Elements can now be validated “on-the-fly” where an element is validated as soon as it looses focus; use the newly added “validate_on_the_fly” flag for the “client_side_validation”; thanks to François Rigaudie and Konstantin Stoyanov; all error messages can now be shown on form submit rather than only the first one; use the newly added “validate_all” flag for the “client_side_validation”; thanks to François Rigaudie and Konstantin Stoyanov; file names can now be prefixed with a given string when uploading files (using the “upload” rule); thanks to Robert Warelis; the library now triggers an error message if a “date” control doesn’t have the “date” rule set. note that this rule cannot be set automatically since it requires an error message to be set by the developer. thanks to bastian; the “length” rule, set with the 4th argument to TRUE, will now always show the character counter; previously, the character counter was shown only if the lower limit was 0. thanks to Andy Vogar; fixed a bug in the JavaScript code regarding the file upload control which was not working with jQuery UI. thanks to edward for fixing it; fixed a bug where validation would fail if there were two or more file upload controls on a form. thanks to edward for fixing it; fixed a bug where the class for disabled control was not correctly applied; some updates in the documentation; updated Zebra_DatePicker to version 1.3.1

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Zebra_Form, version 2.8 now available

Stefan Gabos — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:55:16 +0000

Fixed a bug where the attach_tip() JavaScript method was not working properly; thanks to Andrei Bodeanschi; previously, the placeholders were injected to the bottom of the main document rather than right after the parent element and thus generating issues like placeholder remaining visible when hiding the parent element’s container; now the placeholders are injected in the DOM right next to the parent element; fixed a bug where because of the fact that JavaScript and PHP treat new lines, accented characters and special characters differently (1 byte in JavaScript and 2 or 3 bytes in PHP), server-side validation of a maximum allowed length would sometimes fail if a textarea’s value would contain new lines, although client-side validation was ok; thanks to Andrei Bodeanski for spotting it; fixed a bug where setting the “readonly_element” property to FALSE on a date element had no effect; thanks to bastian; fixed a bug where a date element’s “get_date” method was triggering a warning if the the element was not required and no date was selected; thanks to bastian; the “length” rule now accepts a 5th argument instructing the script to show a counter of remaining characters; added a new method available for text, textarea and password controls, called change_case which can be used to instruct the script to force all letters typed by the user, to either uppercase or lowercase, in real-time; added documentation on how to access the Zebra_Form object in JavaScript, with examples; added documentation on how to use AJAX in custom validations (scroll down to the “custom” rule and keep reading); tweaked the default CSS style of the date control which was a bit too short; updated Zebra_DatePicker to version 1.2

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Zebra_Form, version 2.7.7 now available

Stefan Gabos — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:07:02 +0000

Fixed a bug that made disabling dates impossible – thanks to Andrei Bodeanschi; fixed a bug with the “convert” rule that made it always delete the converted image immediately after conversion, if the “overwrite” argument was set to TRUE; added Albanian translation; thanks to Faton Sopa.

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Zebra_Form, version 2.7.6 now available

Stefan Gabos — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:41:33 +0000

A bug was fixed that appeared since the last version and made file uploads to never pass validation; a bug was fixed where placeholders (labels used as “hints” inside text/password/textarea controls) would not follow their parent control upon resizing the browser window; sometimes error messages get stuck and cannot be closed; although I couldn’t find the root of the problem I’ve done some tweaks and it seems to be working a bit better now (especially error messages related to file upload controls). the whole logic around error messages needs to be rewritten tough, as I realized that there are some faulted approaches there.

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Zebra_Form, version 2.7.5 now available

Stefan Gabos — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:22:34 +0000

In this version, a bug was fixed where using multiple forms on a single page would disable client-side validation for all forms but the first one; thanks to Pedro Abreu for reporting; fixed a bug where if there were selection groups in a select, it would never pass validation; fixed a bug where placeholders (labels as hints inside textboxes and textareas) were not working on textareas; thanks to Chris for reporting it a long time ago and to Andrei Bodeanschi for recently reminding me about it; elements that have display:none or visibility:hidden are no longer checked in the client-side validation process; the Zebra_Transform plugin is not included anymore in the library; it can be downloaded and used separately from here if needed; as a result, the form’s fancy_form() method is also gone; some additions to documentation;

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Zebra_Form, version 2.7.4 now available

Stefan Gabos — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:45:33 +0000

fixed another bug that would make date validation impossible in certain scenarios;
minor updates to the JavaScript code;

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Zebra_Form, version 2.7.3 now available

Stefan Gabos — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:53:19 +0000

fixed a bug where dates having the day < 10 would not pass validation; thanks to Dev for reporting;
fixed a bug where Zebra_TransForm was incorrectly initialized and was transforming controls on the entire page rather than just the current form’s controls;
fixed a bug that made impossible to set custom classes for the actual
tag, through the form’s constructor method; thanks to Sebi Popa for reporting;
fixed a bug that would cause the script to trigger a warning when a select control would have [] (square brackets) in its name but the multiple attribute was not also set;
fixed an issue that allowed malicious users to submit arbitrary values instead of the ones defined at the form’s creation, for select controls, checkboxes and radio buttons; the severity of the issue was low as the submitted values were still filtered for cross-site scripting (XSS) attempts, so no real harm could be done; thanks for PunKeel for reporting;
previously, the library would rely on information available in the $_FILES super-global for determining an uploaded file’s mime type, which, as it turns out, is determined by the file’s extension, representing a potential security risk; now, for PHP versions 5.3.0+ compiled with the “php_fileinfo” extension, the uploaded file’s mime type is determined using PHP’s finfo_file function; thanks to DaveK for reporting;
now the script throws a JavaScript error if the JavaScript function required by a custom validation doesn’t exists; previously, it would silently ignore the fact;
updated the Zebra_DatePicker to version 1.1.2
updated documentation to reflect the recent changes in the Zebra_Image library

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Zebra_Form 2.7.2 and Zebra_DatePicker 1.1.1 are now available!

Stefan Gabos — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:26:00 +0000

A bug was fixed in the DatePicker’s source, regarding event delegation, a bug that would crash the script in certain scenarios; thanks to Sebi Popa for spotting it!

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Zebra_Form, version 2.7.1 now available

Stefan Gabos — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:45:21 +0000

In version 2.7.1 a bug was fixed where dates would never validate for languages other than English – thanks to alfred; the form now completely adheres to http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H44.html which requires that all controls have an associated label – previously, the honeypot element did not have an associated label – thanks to Alexis; some minor optimizations in the PHP code and some clarifications in the documentation regarding the “resize” rule;

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