Form validation

Hmm, figured out my own hacks to do the form validation and the widget resize. I also just hid the text area for the post content and now people are forced to use the visual editor.

Solving problems is fun ??

@krama757

I’m sorry I haven’t been able to dive into it yet. I have been very busy lately.

Would you mind sharing your solutions on the forum so more of us can benefit from it.

By the way, I agree with you: solving problems is fun (most of the time).

inapan

Np Inapan…I’m just thankful that you made such an awesome plugin.

I’ll give a brief idea of what I did:
Question: How would you resize the widget to only have a certain width?
Solution:
In quickpost-widget.php:
Place: “<div class=”quick_post”>” before the line “<form autocomplete=”off” method=”post” name=quickpostwidget action=”” >”
Then place your “</div>” after the “</form>”.
Now in your template files, you can add custom style sheets for div.quick_post to choose your width, height, etc.

Question: How would you validate the input in a custom field?
Solution: Look for for ($cfn = 1; $cfn <= $qpw_custom_fields_count; $cfn++) {
Here, if you know what your customfields are going to be then you can individually check your custom field values by using:

if($_POST['customfield_1'] == 'Some incorrect input'){
$error = 'yes';
								?>
								<script type="text/javascript">
									document.getElementById(<?php echo '\'' . $customfield . '\''; ?>).style.border="solid 1px <?php echo $error_color; ?>";
								</script> <?php
							}

This should allow you to control and check the inputs of your various custom fields assuming you know what each custom field is supposed to be.
Question: How do you hide the textbox for post-content so that only the visual editor is used?
Solution:
In your widget settings, go to the style setting for post content and enter “visibility: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;” into the textbox.

That should effectively hide your post-content text box so people are forced to use the visual editor.

Happy Coding!

Question: How do you hide the textbox for post-content so that only the visual editor is used?

This question should be bolded in the previous post >.< I wish the forum had a front-end edit function ??

Thanks for sharing!

inapan

@krama757 Thanks for that…very useful tip for hiding the textbox.