On Jan 15, 2008 10:02 AM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nathan Nobbe wrote: > > > i think this ties into the thread tedd started a week or so ago > > about the best approach for collecting user data. > > it would be much easier to validate if there were 3 text input fields > > to collect the data, rather than 1, free-form field. > > I would stick to one date field with a simple javascript validation > (using a regex) at entry time followed by a semantic check that the > given day exists in the given month/year. > Of course, if you'd rather not use javascript, you could validate the > whole thing after POST. well obviously you want to validate on the server side no matter what. validation only on the client side is a bad practice. -nathan
