Highly Customizable jQuery Form Validation plugin - validVal

validVal is a highly customizable and feature rich jQuery plugin that adds client side or server side form validation functionality to your existing form elements.

Features:

• Can be used for validating any kind of HTML-form, with very little effort.
• Supports five default value-validations: "required", "number", "email", "url" and "pattern".
• Easily extendable with custom value-validations.
• Great default "invalid-handler" that can be extended or customized.
• Can validate multiple input-fields for corresponding values.
• Enables a group of checkboxes to have at least one checkbox to be "required".
• Gracefull degration for clearing the placeholder-value "onFocus", even on password-fields.
• Automatically select the next input-field when the "maxlength" nth-character is entered.
• Supplies a workaround for IE's lack of support for the :focus-pseudoclass.

Basic Usage:

1. Include the jQuery javascript library and jQuery validVal plugin in your document.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.validVal.min.js"></script>

2. Create a Form using Html5 based attributes and type-value.

<form name="form">

<div>
<label for="i1">Required</label>
<input id="i1" name="required" required type="text" value="" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="i2">Number</label>
<input id="i2" name="number" type="number" value="" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="i3">E-mail</label>
<input id="i3" name="email" type="email" value="" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="i4">URL</label>
<input id="i4" name="url" type="url" value="" />
</div>

...

<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="reset" value="Reset" />

</form>

3. Initialize the plugin and done.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('form[name="form"]').validVal();
});
</script>

4. Style the plugin in the CSS to give your form elements a good look.

5. For serve-side validation, you need to edit the rules in validations.php and upload it to your server.

<?php

	//	echo "yes" if the fields value is valid (and "no" if not)
	$val = $_GET[ 'value' ];
	switch( $_GET[ 'name' ] ) {

		case 'required':
			echo ( strlen( $val ) > 0 ) ? 'yes' : 'no';
			break;

		case 'number':
			if ( strlen( $val ) == 0 ) {
				echo 'yes';
				break;
			}
			echo ( is_numeric( $val ) ) ? 'yes' : 'no';
			break;

		case 'email':
			if ( strlen( $val ) == 0 ) {
				echo 'yes';
				break;
			}
			echo ( eregi( "^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $val ) ) ? 'yes' : 'no';
			break;

		case 'url':
			if ( strlen( $val ) == 0 ) {
				echo 'yes';
				break;
			}
			$pattern = '/^(([\w]+:)?\/\/)?(([\d\w]|%[a-fA-f\d]{2,2})+(:([\d\w]|%[a-fA-f\d]{2,2})+)[email protected])?([\d\w][-\d\w]{0,253}[\d\w]\.)+[\w]{2,4}(:[\d]+)?(\/([-+_~.\d\w]|%[a-fA-f\d]{2,2})*)*(\?(&amp;?([-+_~.\d\w]|%[a-fA-f\d]{2,2})=?)*)?(#([-+_~.\d\w]|%[a-fA-f\d]{2,2})*)?$/';
			echo ( preg_match( $pattern, $val ) ) ? 'yes': 'no';
			break;

		default:
			echo 'yes';
	}
?>

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by BeSite. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.