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/* Title: Generic HTML Form Validator                                */
/*								     */
/* Original Idea         : Emre Sevinç(*), emres at bilgi edu tr     */
/* Initial Implementation: Ferhat Can(*), ferhatc at bilgi edu tr    */
/* Final Code            : Emre Sevinç                               */
/* Testing & Coding Ideas: Serkan Güzeller, natilius at bilgi edu tr */
/* Mozilla Compatibility : Hüseyin Aslıtürk, asliturk at yahoo com   */
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/* This code is released under GPL licence                           */
/* see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details		     */
/* July, 2003                                                        */
/*								     */
/* BUGS:                                                             */
/* -Currently works on MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla only ;-)     */
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/* TO-DO:                                                            */
/* - Add some more utility "RegEx"es                                 */
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/* NOTES:                                                            */
/* Thanks to http://fazlamesai.net community for peer                */
/* code reviews and technical support.                               */
/*                                                                   */
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/* See GenericValidator.html included with distribution              */
/* which has a demo showing the example usage of functionality       */
/*                                                                   */
/* (*): Istanbul Bilgi University (http://www.bilgi.edu.tr)          */
/* eMBA Software Development Team                                    */
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function validate(targetForm) {
	
    var EMAIL = "^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+(\.([a-zA-Z0-9_-])+)*@[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+[.][a-zA-Z0-9_-]+([.][a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)*$"
    var URL = "http://"
    
    for (var i = 0; i < targetForm.elements.length; i++) {
	if(targetForm.elements[i].getAttribute("strValue") != null) {
	    var message = targetForm.elements[i].getAttribute("message");
	    var strBound = targetForm.elements[i].getAttribute("strBound");	
	    var strVal = targetForm.elements[i].getAttribute("strValue");
   
	    if(eval('document.' + strBound + '.type') == 'select-one') {
		var sIndex = eval('document.' + strBound + '.selectedIndex');
		var strBoundVal = eval('document.' + strBound + '[' + sIndex + '].value'); 
	    }
	    if(strVal == strBoundVal){
		if(targetForm.elements[i].value == '') {
		    alert(message);
		    targetForm.elements[i].focus();	
		    return false;
		}						
	    }
				
	}
	
	if(targetForm.elements[i].getAttribute("isReq")) {

	    var message = targetForm.elements[i].getAttribute("message");
	    
	    if(targetForm.elements[i].type == 'checkbox') {
		if(!targetForm.elements[i].checked) {
		    alert(message);
		    targetForm.elements[i].focus();	
		    return false;
		}
	    }
	    else if(targetForm.elements[i].type == 'text' || targetForm.elements[i].type == 'password' || targetForm.elements[i].type == 'file') {
		if(targetForm.elements[i].value == '') {
		    alert(message);
		    targetForm.elements[i].focus();	
		    return false;								
		}
		if(targetForm.elements[i].getAttribute("regex") != null) {
		    var UserRegEx = targetForm.elements[i].getAttribute("regex");
		    var InputValue = targetForm.elements[i].value;
		    if(UserRegEx == 'EMAIL') {
			var re = new RegExp(EMAIL);
			if(!InputValue.match(re)) {
			    alert(message);
			    targetForm.elements[i].focus();	
			    return false;	
			}
		    }
		    else if(UserRegEx == 'URL') {
			var re = new RegExp(URL);
			if(!InputValue.match(re)) {
			    alert(message);
			    targetForm.elements[i].focus();	
			    return false;	
			}
		    }
		    else {
			var re = new RegExp(UserRegEx);
			if(!InputValue.match(re)) {
			    alert(message);
			    targetForm.elements[i].focus();	
			    return false;	
			}
		    }
		}
	    }
	    else if(targetForm.elements[i].type == 'select-one') {
		if(targetForm.elements[i].value == '') {
		    alert(message);
		    targetForm.elements[i].focus();	
		    return false;								
		}
	    }
	    else if(targetForm.elements[i].type == 'textarea') {
		if(targetForm.elements[i].value == '') {
		    alert(message);
		    targetForm.elements[i].focus();	
		    return false;								
		}
	    }
	    else if(targetForm.elements[i].type == 'radio') {
		var isSelected = false;
		var j = 0;
		while(targetForm.elements[i+j].type == 'radio' && 
		      targetForm.elements[i].name == targetForm.elements[i+j].name) {
		    if(targetForm.elements[i+j].checked) {
			isSelected = true;
		    }
		    j++;
					
		}
		
		j = 0;
		
		while(targetForm.elements[i-j].type == 'radio' && 
		      targetForm.elements[i].name == targetForm.elements[i-j].name) {
		    if(targetForm.elements[i-j].checked) {
			isSelected = true;
		    }
		
		    if(i-j <= 0) {
			break;
		    }
		
		    j++;					
		}				
		
		if(!isSelected) {
		    alert(message);
		    targetForm.elements[i].focus();	
		    return false;				
		}
	    }
	    else {
		return true;
	    }
	}
    }		
}