O'Reilly: User-Friendly Form Validation (PHP/CSS)

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User-Friendly Form Validation with PHP
and CSS

User-Friendly Form Validation with PHP
and CSS 04/23/2004 07:14 PM
Any non-trivial web application processes form data, and every secure web application has to validate that data on the server. Balancing security with user-friendliness can be tricky. Jeff Cogswell demonstrates one approach.

Form and Spelling Validation

Form and Spelling Validation 10/29/2003 02:22 AM
Most dynamic web sites rely heavily on forms. From user authentication to entry of news items, we use forms to accept user input. There are many different ways we can validate data from the user. In this tutorial, we will examine several of the more common items that need validation and provide examples for each. We will also explore how to check documents for misspelled words and suggest proper replacements.

validate_form.js: HTML form validation

validate_form.js: HTML form validation 07/05/2004 03:44 PM
validate_form.js: Version 1.9b released

Formcat: form validation generator.

Formcat: form validation generator. 01/06/2005 12:15 AM
Formcat 1.01 released

Form Validation on the Client Side

Form Validation on the Client Side 09/09/2002 01:18 AM
WebmasterBase Sep 9 2002 0:40AM ET

Enhancing form usability with
instructions and validation

Enhancing form usability with
instructions and validation 05/25/2004 02:49 PM
CNET May 25 2004 7:19PM GMT

Automate form validation with JavaScript
and JavaBeans

Automate form validation with JavaScript
and JavaBeans 02/15/2003 02:56 AM
CNET Feb 15 2003 1:24AM ET

Form Validation: an Object-Oriented
Approach

Form Validation: an Object-Oriented
Approach 05/30/2002 02:41 PM

O'Reilly PHP DevCenter: PHP Form
Handling

O'Reilly PHP DevCenter: PHP Form
Handling 08/27/2004 01:35 PM
The O'Reilly PHP Devcenter has a new article posted seeking to help you out with your form handling with a listing of several tips to get started.

Linux Getting More User Friendly

Linux Getting More User Friendly 02/03/2003 10:14 AM
The old line on Linux that it was hard to install and harder to maintain is finally starting to give way: "...a fresh Redhat 8.0 install its amazing how far its come. The Font's, icon crispness and overall look is light years from where it was."

Is AOL More Ad-User Friendly?
(AdWeek.com)

Is AOL More Ad-User Friendly?
(AdWeek.com) 09/22/2004 06:38 PM
AdWeek.com - As an ad medium, America Online has struggled to compete with rivals Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN. But nine-month AOL Me-dia Networks president Michael J. Kelly declares the Time Warner unit has turned the corner--and some advertisers and agencies agree.

Making DVDs user friendly

Making DVDs user friendly 02/01/2005 10:12 PM

I have been messing around with a similar conundrum. I have a PocketPC that I drag everywhere and just got a 1Gb SDIO card that works with it. I found a product called DVD2PPC which rips DVDs to WMV files compressed to the viewed on the PocketPC. It works pretty well. Sometimes the audio track is off. But for the most part it works. and I get 5-8 movies on my PPC.

I'll be that Apple is discussing with studios about movie downloads. The iPod is the perfect platform for this. My PocketPC plays video and it won't be long before iPods do.

I guess I’m not typical.

It’s rare for me to watch a DVD at home anymore. If I’m watching TV, it’s a basketball game, something on HDNet/Movies, or one of the HD channels, or something I Tivo’d. Typically Dave Chappelle or Law & Order.

About the only time I actually place an actual DVD into a DVD player is when it’s for my daughter.

That’s not to say I don’t want to watch DVDs, or I haven’t watched DVD’s. I do, and I have.

I watched them in hotel rooms on my PC. I’ve watched them on my PC when I’m on a plane.  Mostly, and I’m sure this was my fault for not being careful, I watched half ‘till the end, the other half until they stopped playing because of a scratch.

Is there anything more irritating than a scratched DVD?

So I thought I would do something about it. I have already written about how I think hard drives will have a significant part to play in how we experience and watch video content. What I hadn’t done personally was take the time to convert DVD’s I had PURCHASED to a format that could be easily stored on my new remote control sized, 80gbs Firelight.

My plan was to take the drive, stuff it with movies, and use it to launch movies I could watch on the road.

What a pain in the ass.

I used 3 different rippers. All pretty much worked in realtime. Slow. Tedius. Didn’t rip correctly every time.  My dream of taking 20 or so movies on the road with me died a sad death halfway through the boredom of coming back and checking to see if Dodgeball was done.

Which leads to the “aren’t I the customer here moment,” we all have.

Why isn’t an AVI, DIVX, WMV, MOV or any format of computer usable video put on one of the DVD’s ? Anything but those pain in the ass VOB files. Most DVD’s have the less than 1gbs in space left.

It can be copy protected for those studios with Piraphobia (fear of piracy).  I just need the ability to copy it 3 or 4 times (don’t want to be left off when I put it on my new 250gbs mobile drive next year ).

I would even pay a premium for it…Put a sticker on the package saying this DVD has a format compatible with PC hard drives.

Better yet, you could put it online. Let me put my DVD in, it checks your website for authenticity,  I give you my demographic information, you let me download a file I can put on my hard drive.

You win, the customer wins and guess what? When it comes time to buy a DVD, and it’s a toss up between the movie that makes it easy for me, the customer, vs. the one who doesn’t care about me. Guess which one I pick ?

If no one wants me as their customer, then I do more of what I’m starting to do now. I take the movies and tv shows I record from my computer based PVR and copy them to my little harddrive (in minutes for everything), and watch them on the road instead of buying your DVD’s.

Complications lose customers. Simplification gets customers. 

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[Blog Maverick]

User-friendly BI takes shape

User-friendly BI takes shape 06/21/2004 07:35 AM
Actuate and MicroStrategy continue to battle over an enterprise market increasingly demanding more user-friendly business intelligence from a single BI platform.

Another crack at user-friendly feeds

Another crack at user-friendly feeds 05/03/2004 07:57 AM

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'Virtual PC' Still Slow But More User
Friendly

'Virtual PC' Still Slow But More User
Friendly 03/30/2005 04:22 AM

By Dennis Sellers, Macsimum

XandrosOS: User-friendly to a fault

XandrosOS: User-friendly to a fault 02/16/2004 01:14 PM
Reg Review Linux with all the drawbacks of Windows

10 Easy Steps To A User Friendly Website

10 Easy Steps To A User Friendly Website 12/21/2003 02:33 AM
WebDevInfo Dec 21 2003 1:25AM ET

Evolt.org: Making Tables User-friendly

Evolt.org: Making Tables User-friendly 10/01/2002 08:16 AM

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.9

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.9 08/03/2004 02:14 PM
A Scintilla-based, scriptable text editor.

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 03/16/2003 10:59 AM
CUTE 0.1.3 released

Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block

Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block 11/11/2003 05:51 AM
Sony's new CD technology would prevent copying songs to file-sharing sites -- the music industry's worst nightmare -- while still letting customers make copies for their own use.

Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block.

Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block. 11/10/2003 11:20 PM
Reuters: Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block. Extra crap on a CD does not make up for the inconvenience of DRM. The fact that a Sony CD only works with Sony portable music players is not like the iTunes Music Store only working with the iPod, since people have expectations that they can legally rip their legally-purchased CDs however they want. Give me a CD or nothing.

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.2

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.2 11/16/2003 01:29 AM
A Scintilla-based, scriptable text editor.

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.8

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.8 06/06/2004 11:29 PM
A Scintilla-based, scriptable text editor.

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.7

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.7 04/12/2004 03:37 PM
A Scintilla-based, scriptable text editor.

TopCash Launches New User-Friendly
Extractor and Burner

TopCash Launches New User-Friendly
Extractor and Burner 06/10/2004 02:47 AM
Extracting and copying CD or DVD files is a must for anyone who listens to music on their computer. TopCash Extractor and Burner Makes this process a snap. [PRWEB Jun 10, 2004]

Wired News: Sony's User-Friendly Copy
Block

Wired News: Sony's User-Friendly Copy
Block 11/11/2003 09:14 PM

3G technology making the lives of people
easier through user-friendly compelling
applications

3G technology making the lives of people
easier through user-friendly compelling
applications 06/22/2004 02:42 AM
AME Info Jun 22 2004 6:37AM GMT

O'Reilly Network Column Discusses New
User Interface Possibilities Offered by
XUL

O'Reilly Network Column Discusses New
User Interface Possibilities Offered by
XUL 04/09/2004 04:05 PM

Wells Fargo's Internet exec makes its
site user-friendly and an effective
sales tool

Wells Fargo's Internet exec makes its
site user-friendly and an effective
sales tool 12/27/2003 09:04 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 27 2003 8:06AM ET

New Dual Channel Digital LVDT Readout
and Setpoint Controllers Offer
User-Friendly Operations, Versatile
Applications

New Dual Channel Digital LVDT Readout
and Setpoint Controllers Offer
User-Friendly Operations, Versatile
Applications 03/19/2005 03:12 AM
Macro Sensors introduces two new six-digit, dual channel controllers for applications involving LVDT-based displacement transducers or VR half-bridge gaging probes. Economically-priced, the DMC-A2 Dual Channel AC-LVDT Controller and DMC-D2 Dual Channel DC-LVDT Controllers perform arithmetic calculations between two channels for T.I.R. measurements or differential measurement for use in production lines to automatically gage products for quality control and product sorting. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]

Stellus Systems™ Sets New Standard
for Consumer-level GPS Receivers for
Smartphones and Handheld
DevicesHigh-Performance GPS Receiver
Transforms Mobile Devices Into
User-Friendly Navigational Tools

Stellus Systems™ Sets New Standard
for Consumer-level GPS Receivers for
Smartphones and Handheld
DevicesHigh-Performance GPS Receiver
Transforms Mobile Devices Into
User-Friendly Navigational Tools 01/05/2005 03:27 AM
Stellus System, Inc., a leading system integrator of wireless communication products, announced today the SSI-SDIO-1000, the first high-performance, rugged GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver with a SDIO (Secure Digital Input/Output) interface designed for power conscience consumer-level applications. Stellus’ unique design enables mobile devices, such as Smartphones and connected PDAs, to receive GPS signals and, together with off-the-shelf GPS mapping software, transforms them into navigational receivers. [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

O'Reilly Network: O'Reilly Network --
2004 Emerging Technology Conference
Coverage [Jan. 16, 2004]

O'Reilly Network: O'Reilly Network --
2004 Emerging Technology Conference
Coverage [Jan. 16, 2004] 02/11/2004 08:18 AM
O'Reilly Network: O'Reilly Network -- 2004 Emerging Technology Conference Coverage [Jan. 16, 2004] .. the DDTI's own aggregation page

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HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer 08/30/2004 05:24 PM

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Here're my running notes from danah boyd's Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people off, etc.

This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase off your best users, too.

Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating arises out of real contexts.

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic, because ex-lovers are strong ties!).

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How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable 09/11/2004 11:26 PM

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user"

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user" 08/14/2004 09:34 AM

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web 12/08/2002 10:04 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 8 2002 8:41PM ET

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account 08/17/2004 09:19 PM

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Validation with JavaScript

Validation with JavaScript 12/02/2003 12:15 AM
Form validation can help to reduce the amount of bad data that gets saved to your database. In this article, find out how you can write a simple JavaScript form validator for basic client-side validation, and learn a little bit about JavaScript OOP in the process as well.

How to Create Universally Related Popup
Menus with Javascript: Single Form
Version III

How to Create Universally Related Popup
Menus with Javascript: Single Form
Version III 06/17/2005 03:32 PM
In this article, the author modifies Andy King's original version of the Universally Related Popup Menus (URPMs). His intention was to make it more suitable for submitting data to a server and to simplify the JavaScript "O" objects used to store all the related list data. Read on to see how he did it. By Rob Gravelle. 0613

CSS Validation

CSS Validation 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
As reported elsewhere this morning, if you use the Tantek hack in combination with the screen media type, your CSS doesn't validate. Long story short, it's because the validator is mis-reporting. It should validate, but it doesn't. Well, at...

E-mail Validation with PHP

E-mail Validation with PHP 06/18/2004 08:38 PM
This tutorial will show you how to check to see if an E-mail address is valid.

Validation by Instance

Validation by Instance 09/03/2002 11:37 AM
What if a single schema type won't suffice, and you need a DTD, RELAX NG, and W3C XML Schema? Michael Fitzgerald explains how to generate all three automatically from a representative XML instance.

The Search for Validation

The Search for Validation 07/06/2004 06:29 PM
Smart Mobs links to an inte resting article on how the teenagers are using blogs. The following two paragraphs make me raise my eyebrows in not completely unlike Spock -manner:

The first one I've heard from many people also in the Finnish blogosphere. Feedback is what keeps many people writing, though some are still happy just to organize their own thoughts, and don't really care if someone reads them or not.

But combined with the second one... It's amazing how naturally the teenagers consider online life a completely separate arena, one that has nothing to do with the real life. It makes me actually wonder about things like the Finnish blog awards, or the blogger meetings that are occurring everywhere. It is strange to meet fellow bloggers, indeed: many people write only of a single aspect of their life online, be it their angst at being alone or their hobbies, or their day-to-day life. Very few people pour all aspects of their life into the internet, and even then the "compression" of the bandwidth is very lossy: you only see some things, with the less interesting bits removed.

Many people have told me that they like to read their own blogs. I like to do it myself, sometimes (then again, I'm not very critical at myself :). This is not really very surprising, as it most probably is the kind of text you like to read - and also because it makes your own life to look more interesting. It's kinda like doing social pornography on yourself - something that all of us do anyway. It's no more different than looking through old photographs, or resting your eyes on your own furniture (you chose it, so it must be pleasing).

Who are you blogging really for?

Why do I write online?

I guess there is no simple answer to that. Part of me yearns for validation: the "Hey, I read your entry the other day and I liked it" -moments. Part of me is narcistic: I want to be known, scream out that my life has not been in vain. Part of it is simply about the engineers built-in desire to change things, to have impact on the world - nibble away at the corner of a huge statue so that it becomes more beautiful. Part of me wants a place to store my thoughts in some coherent order, and an important part of me just needs to write.

But I guess the most important thing are the people. Weblogs allow me to share things with the people I love, allow other people to discover me and perhaps - if I'm lucky - they become friends. What I write is only a small part of me, but it is the part I want you to see. They are things I consider important, or things that move me. Or things that are just silly and make me laugh.

I like bloggers. Blogging is not yet tainted by rampant commercialism, nor big corporations saying "we want this", or "we monetize that". Blogging is about creating something new, be it in the form of your life, or just repeating old things but in a new order. Bloggers have their own voice, some of them beautiful, and some of them not so beautiful

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IT project validation

IT project validation 01/04/2003 01:58 AM
CNET Jan 4 2003 1:02AM ET

A New Source for Your Validation

A New Source for Your Validation 07/13/2004 08:37 PM

Since I first implemented ccValidator late last year, I've been encouraged by the amount of feedback and suggestions I've received. Common-ers everywhere have pointed out bugs, suggested improvements and encouraged it's development into a useful tool.

Today, ccValidator has a new home: validator.creativecommons. org and a handful of new features. The validator now supports metadata specified as a seperate file with a <link ...> tag, and hopefully provides some improved error messages when it runs into problems. If you have any validation links, don't worry: we're redirecting calls to the validator at yergler.net to it's new home. Go ahead, kick the tires, and drop me a line if you have a suggestion or bug report.

New: NRG Address Validation 1.0

New: NRG Address Validation 1.0 07/21/2004 11:08 AM
NRG Address Validation provides integrated address management and validation for FileMaker Pro.

When validation becomes fuzzy

When validation becomes fuzzy 05/29/2002 02:24 PM

DOM Level 3 Validation is a W3C
Recommendation

DOM Level 3 Validation is a W3C
Recommendation 01/27/2004 10:20 AM
2004-01-27: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Document Object Model Level 3 Validation as a W3C Recommendation. DOM Level 3 Validation is a module that provides guidance to programs and scripts to dynamically update the content and the structure of documents while ensuring that the document remains valid, or becomes valid. Learn more about the DOM Activity. (News archive)

Character Repertoire Validation for XML

Character Repertoire Validation for XML 01/16/2004 10:57 AM
This article presents a schema language for limiting the range of characters permitted in an XML document. It can be used to protect legacy applications or to enforce restrictions in document workflows.

Understanding ASP.NET Validation
Controls

Understanding ASP.NET Validation
Controls 09/06/2004 06:28 PM
WebDevInfo Sep 6 2004 8:28PM GMT

W3C HTML Validation Service

W3C HTML Validation Service 04/17/2004 08:53 AM
W3CMarkup Validation Service .. HTML 4.01 Transitional .. validator over at W3C .. Validate your pages .. validate the XHTML .. validating code .. W3's validator .. validates .. more .. v

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When validation becomes fuzzy (xmlhack)

When validation becomes fuzzy (xmlhack) 05/30/2002 08:09 AM

Gallery Input Validation

Gallery Input Validation 08/12/2002 10:49 AM

Client side validation

Client side validation 01/22/2004 03:09 AM

Brent Simmons: What I could do—what I’d like to do—is include Mark’s and Sam Ruby’s validator in NetNewsWire.

+1.  I'm in.

This will require some work, none of it hard.  Prereqs are Python 2.x and pyxml.  There currently are three interfaces: a CGI/web interface, a command line, and a web interface.

• The CGI/web interface contains a number of absolute paths and direct references to the host.  However, this is probably the best place to start.
• The command line interface is designed primarily for development use.  However, something like this that returns back a simple return code might be useful for your optional indicator.
• The web service interface accepts a simple HTTP POST, optionally with SOAP envelope and body elements.  This could be evolved into something that does exactly the same as the above, but without requiring any installation on the client.  Of course, this would require that the user be online at the time, and would have quite different performance characteristics.  Overall, probably not the path to pursue in this case.

In any case, none of this work is difficult, and I would be glad to do it.

phpBB Input Validation

phpBB Input Validation 08/06/2002 12:53 PM

Sympoll Input Validation

Sympoll Input Validation 08/06/2002 12:53 PM

Client-side validation

Client-side validation 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
Mark Pilgrim, in If people won’t go to the validator, suggests running the validator on the client rather than on the web.

Last week I got a surprising amount of requests from NetNewsWire users who’d like to have a validator built in to NetNewsWire. (Many of these people are people who test and monitor their own feeds with NetNewsWire.)

What I could do—what I’d like to do—is include Mark’s and Sam Ruby’s validator in NetNewsWire. The validator would stay out of the way by default, but it would be there for people who want it.

There’s an issue, though: the validator is open source, licensed via the Python license, and I don’t know if I can include it with NetNewsWire. (License gurus please clarify.)

But more importantly, licensing issues aside, I wouldn’t do it without Mark’s and Sam’s agreement.

(In case you’re wondering about the technical details: the validator would be included unmodified, as a set of files on disk, but inside the app package, in Contents/Resources/).

XML-Deviant: Constraining Validation

XML-Deviant: Constraining Validation 08/27/2004 01:49 PM
What's the difference between validation and business rules? XML developers discuss how and why to use them.

O'Reilly: User-Friendly Form Validation (PHP/CSS)

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