
//Highlight form element- © Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com) For full source code, 100's more DHTML scripts, and TOS, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com
//script language="JavaScript" src= "../js/form.js" script 

var highlightcolor="#ffffff"

var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all
var previous=''
var eventobj

//Regular expression to highlight only form elements
var intended=/INPUT|TEXTAREA|SELECT|OPTION/

//Function to check whether element clicked is form element
function checkel(which){
if (which.style&&intended.test(which.tagName)){
if (ns6&&eventobj.nodeType==3)
eventobj=eventobj.parentNode.parentNode
return true
}
else
return false
}

//Function to highlight form element
function highlight(e){
eventobj=ns6? e.target : event.srcElement
if (previous!=''){
if (checkel(previous))
previous.style.backgroundColor=''
previous=eventobj
if (checkel(eventobj))
eventobj.style.backgroundColor=highlightcolor
}
else{
if (checkel(eventobj))
eventobj.style.backgroundColor=highlightcolor
previous=eventobj
}
}

function submitonce(theform){
	//if IE 4+ or NS 6+
	//alert("in the SubmitOnce function");
	if (document.all||document.getElementById){
		//screen thru every element in the form, and hunt down "image"
		for (i=0;i<theform.length;i++){
			var tempobj=theform.elements[i]
			if(tempobj.type.toLowerCase()=="image")
				//disable em
				tempobj.disabled=true
		}
	}
}


//http://javascript.about.com/library/scripts/blformvalidate.htm
function isEmailAddr(email)
{
  var result = false;
  var theStr = new String(email);
  var index = theStr.indexOf("@");
  if (index > 0)
  {
    var pindex = theStr.indexOf(".",index);
    if ((pindex > index+1) && (theStr.length > pindex+1))
	result = true;
  }
  return result;
}
function validRequired(formField,fieldLabel)
{
	var result = true;
	if (formField.value == "")
	{
		alert('Please enter a value for the "' + fieldLabel +'" field.');
		formField.focus();
		result = false;
	}
	return result;
}
function allDigits(str)
{
	return inValidCharSet(str,"0123456789");
}
function inValidCharSet(str,charset)
{
	var result = true;
	for (var i=0;i<str.length;i++)
		if (charset.indexOf(str.substr(i,1))<0)
		{
			result = false;
			break;
		}
	return result;
}
function validEmail(formField,fieldLabel,required)
{
	var result = true;
	if (required && !validRequired(formField,fieldLabel))
		result = false;
	if (result && ((formField.value.length < 3) || !isEmailAddr(formField.value)) )
	{
		alert("Please enter a complete email address in the form: yourname@yourdomain.com");
		formField.focus();
		result = false;
	}
	return result;
}
function validNum(formField,fieldLabel,required)
{
	var result = true;
	if (required && !validRequired(formField,fieldLabel))
		result = false;
 	if (result)
 	{
 		if (!allDigits(formField.value))
 		{
 			alert('Please enter a number for the "' + fieldLabel +'" field.');
			formField.focus();		
			result = false;
		}
	} 
	return result;
}
function validInt(formField,fieldLabel,required)
{
	var result = true;
	if (required && !validRequired(formField,fieldLabel))
		result = false;
 	if (result)
 	{
 		var num = parseInt(formField.value);
 		if (isNaN(num))
 		{
 			alert('Please enter a number for the "' + fieldLabel +'" field.');
			formField.focus();		
			result = false;
		}
	} 
	return result;
}
function validDate(formField,fieldLabel,required)
{
	var result = true;
	if (required && !validRequired(formField,fieldLabel))
		result = false;
 	if (result)
 	{
 		var elems = formField.value.split("/");
 		result = (elems.length == 3); // should be three components
 		if (result)
 		{
 			var month = parseInt(elems[0]);
  			var day = parseInt(elems[1]);
 			var year = parseInt(elems[2]);
			result = allDigits(elems[0]) && (month > 0) && (month < 13) &&
					 allDigits(elems[1]) && (day > 0) && (day < 32) &&
					 allDigits(elems[2]) && ((elems[2].length == 2) || (elems[2].length == 4));
 		}
  		if (!result)
 		{
 			alert('Please enter a date in the format MM/DD/YYYY for the "' + fieldLabel +'" field.');
			formField.focus();		
		}
	} 
	return result;
}
/*
	if (!validNum(theForm.Product_Price,"Product_Price",true))
		return false;
	if (!validEmail(theForm.email,"Email Address",true))
		return false;
	if (!validDate(theForm.available,"Date Available",true))
		return false;
*/	

