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Description

This module adds an extra tab to each webform node, allowing you to specify validation rules for your webform components. You can create one or more of the predefined validation rules, and select which webform component(s) should be validated against those. By using the hooks provided by this module, you can also define your own validation rules in your own modules.

The following validation rules are currently included:

• Numeric values (optionally specify min and / or max value)
• Minimum length
• Maximum length
• Minimum number of words
• Maximum number of words
• Equal values on multiple fields
• Unique values on multiple fields
• Specific value
• Require at least one of two fields
• Require at least one of several fields
• Minimum number of selections required
• Maximum number of selections allowed
• Exact number of selections required
• Plain text (disallow tags)
• Regular expression
• Must be empty (Anti-Spam: Hide with CSS)
• Words blacklist
• Must match a username

Installation

1. Place the module folder in your sites/all/modules folder
2. Make sure you have the webform module enabled
3. Activate the module via admin/build/modules

Usage

Once you have installed the module, an extra tab will appear on the node's webform management pages (tab "Edit" in Webform 2.x, tab "Webform" in Webform 3.x). This extra tab is labeled "Webform validation". Upon selecting this tab, you can choose to add one of the available validation rules to your webform. Make sure you have added the webform components you wish to validate before adding the validation rule. After clicking the link to add the desired validation rule, you can specify the following details for your rule:

• an administrative name to describe the validation rule
• one or more webform components that should be validated against this rule (depending on the chosen rule, you will have to select a specific number of components for the validation rule to work properly).

Depending on the chosen rule, more form fields will be available on the rules form:

• optionally an extra setting to further configure the rule
• optionally a custom error message textfield

Once you have configured your desired validation rules for the selected webform components, every time a user fills in the webform, the validation will be triggered for the selected components, and show the user a standard form error message when entered data doesn't pass the validation rule you have set up.

Adding custom validation rules

The following steps will let you add custom validators through your module:

1. Implement hook hookwebformvalidationvalidators(). This hook implementation should return an array of validator key => options array entries. See function webformvalidationwebformvalidationvalidators() in webformvalidation.validators.inc for a live example. The options array can contain the following configuration keys:
   • name (required): name of the validator.
   • component types (required): defines which component types can be validated by this validator. Specify 'all' to allow all types.
   • custom_error (optional): define whether a user can specify a custom error message upon creating the validation rule.
   • custom_data (optional): define whether custom data can be added to the validation rule.
   • min_components (optional): define the minimum number of components to be selected for creating a validation rule.
   • max_components (optional): define the maximum number of components to be selected for creating a validation rule.
   • description (optional): provide a descriptive explanation about the validator.
2. Implement hook hookwebformvalidationvalidate($validatorname, $items, $components, $rule). This hook gets passed 4 parameters, which will allow you to react to your custom validator (or any other validator for that matter). See function webformvalidationwebformvalidationvalidate() in webform_validation.validators.inc for a live example. Explanation about these parameters:
   • $validatorname: this is the validator name (i.e. array key as entered in hookwebformvalidationvalidators).
   • $items: array containing user submitted entries to be validated.
   • $components: this array contains the definitions of the webform components in your form.
   • $rule: this array contains the details of your validation rule.

Additional hooks

The hook hookwebformvalidation($type, $op, $data) can be used to react on various webform_validation based actions.

• $type - possible values: 'rule'
• $op - possible values: 'add', 'edit', 'delete'
• $data - array with rule data in case of $op add/edit, rule id in case of $op delete.

The hook hookwebformvalidatoralter(&$validators) can be used to alter the array of validators that is being generated by hookwebformvalidationvalidators().

• $validators - array of validators as supplied by modules implementing hookwebformvalidation_validators().

Author

Sven Decabooter (https://www.drupal.org/user/35369)

The author can be contacted for paid customizations of this module as well as Drupal consulting and development.