[ic] Comparing form fields

[Jamie Neil]

Ethan Rowe wrote:
> I just barely went through the delight of figuring this out.  You can do 
> it with a form profile to get the error message you want, somewhat 
> inelegantly.  You an [if] to compare the two variables; for instance, 
> the following uses an explicit type if to strip off leading and trailing 
> whitespace, then matches them.  You could do a standard [if] with no 
> perl to compare them, but they really have to be an exact match to work.
[snip]

Thanks for the reply - of course I found a solution 5 minutes before I 
got your email :).

In case you are interested, here it is:

   <input type="hidden" name="mv_form_profile" value="check_values">

   ...

   [error name=password std_label="Choose a Password" required=1]
   <input type="password" name="password" value="[value password]" 
size="16" maxlength="16">

   [error name=verify std_label="Confirm Password" required=1]
   <input type="password" name="verify" value="[value verify]" size="16" 
maxlength="16">

   ...

   [set check_values]
   [if type=value term=password op=ne compare="[value verify]"]
   &calc=delete $CGI->{verify}; 1;
   verify=mandatory Passwords do not match[/if]
   [/set]

Credit to Ed:

http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2002-July/022834.html

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