Removing validation conditions

[industrialpost]

During the Placing and Ad process, users will be entering in their Listing Details (Step 3). Right now the validation JS is mandating that when you get to the "Link to your website" that the value entered must start with "http://" otherwise the real time validator flags the field as an invalid value. So say the user just put in "www.msn.com" as the value, it triggers the error message. How do I remove this condition? If I can't remove this condition, then how do I make the error line longer to include into the error message something like this: "Please enter a valid url - example: http://www.yourwebsite.com". Please help.

[michael +]

Thanks for posting this, I'd meaning to ask about it myself.

I wonder if it would be too difficult to include http:// automatically in the field with it only being overriden in the rarer case of a user actually including it in the URL?

Looking forward to some more knowledgable input.

[bowers01 +]

not tested but try this.
Find
value="{$url}"
and replace it with value="http://{$url}" in theory it should work fine.
Nick

[michael +]

Thanks Nick, I will try that out later today.

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

I haven't tested this, but it should work.

In your step3.tpl file around line 192 find this:

PHP Code:

<input name="url" id="url" type="text" value="{$url}" size="{$smarty.const.FIELD_SIZE}" /> 


change the variable {$url} to this:

PHP Code:

{$url|default:'http://'} 


[industrialpost]

Thanks for the replies guys. This works and it will make posters more aware of what values are required and not a guess. You are awesome!