EricDealers
Member
I have a client who needs an access code added to a special contact form. IE:
- First/Last name
- Email Address
- Universal/canned Access Code
Security isn't an issue. If somebody with a nose for code could hack the proper access code out of what was written, that's fine. In the end, I'd want to validate a text field value (ex. FieldValue = 'freeoffer2010') against a single variable (AccessCode = 'FreeOffer2010').
To clarify: It sounds like you're talking about a promo code? So you'd distribute a code by some means, and in order to submit your form (presumably to qualify for an offer) a user would have to enter the code?
simpleContact Pro isn't designed with that feature, but I've seen some pretty unexpected modifications and done a few myself :) I'm sure I could come up with something if you didn't mind waiting a few days. A couple of questions:
1) Would it be sufficient if the code was validated with JavaScript? That way, the code could be found by digging through linked files, but wouldn't be on the form page itself.
2) If all users are submitting the same code, would you agree that the code itself doesn't need to be stored in the database as part of the user's submission?
EricDealers
Member
A promo code, yes. Your clarifications are correct. Javascript would be perfect and all users would be submitting the same code, so no database storage is necessary. I'd be more then happy to have your help with this, but I'm not looking to put you out. If you can point me to any examples/chunks of code/etc, I'd more than appreciate it.
thanks!
It's no problem, it should be straightforward enough. I'll try to have a suggestion for you in a few days time.
OK, here's a suggestion. It took me a little longer than planned to get round to this because of general Christmas hectic-ness, I'm sure you understand :) This is a pretty simple process that only requires you to do a couple of things:
1) Create a HTML snippet
Log in to your sc_admin and add an HTML snippet element to your contact form fields. Insert the code below into it:
<div class="lbl"><label for="promocode">Promotion Code</label></div>
<div class="obj"><input type="text" name="promocode" id="promocode" maxlength="30" value="" /></div>
This will create a "fake" field in your form. This field is not recognised by the form processor, but we can use it to attach a bit of JavaScript validation to.
2) JavaScript validation
Open sc_admin/js/forms.js
Inside the validateContact() function you'll find a line that looks like this:
if ($("p.err").length > 0) { return false; }
Add the following code before that line:
if ($("#promocode").val() != 'freeoffer2010') {
$("#promocode").addClass("err").after("<p class=\"err\"><em>Please complete the promotion code</em></p>");
}
So unless the user types "freeoffer2010" into that field it will return an error.
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