I'm struggling to find what I'm doing wrong in this process, and I kindly ask for your suggestions. The goal is : To have a minimum text for the products reviews. In a previous question I received the suggestion to use jquery, but looking around seems that it could lead to some conflicts. so I prefer to use the Magento form validation, both for speed and compatibility. What I've done: Looking at the validation.js file I've foun that there is a validation that could do the trick. using this :
['validate-length', 'Text length does not satisfy specified text range.', function (v, elm) {
var reMax = new RegExp(/^maximum-length-[0-9]+$/);
var reMin = new RegExp(/^minimum-length-[0-9]+$/);
var result = true;
$w(elm.className).each(function(name, index) {
if (name.match(reMax) && result) {
var length = name.split('-')[2];
result = (v.length <= length);
}
if (name.match(reMin) && result && !Validation.get('IsEmpty').test(v)) {
var length = name.split('-')[2];
result = (v.length >= length);
}
});
return result;
}],
I modified the file "form.phtml" in
app/design/frontend/default/MYTEMPLATE/template/review
adding the class after class="required-entry" , so basically , right now the review details text-area looks like:
<li>
<label for="review_field" class="required"><em>*</em><?php echo $this->__('Review') ?></label>
<div class="input-box">
<textarea name="detail" id="review_field" cols="5" rows="3" class="required-entry validate-length maximum-length-600 minimum-length-150"><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($data->getDetail()) ?></textarea>
</div>
</li>
What is happening is ....NOTHING. just as if I didn't do any changes. I also tried to add a custom class in the validation.js file , using this code:
['validate-revminlength', 'Minimum 150 characters are needed.', function (v, elm) {
if(v.length < 150)
{
return false;
}
else
{
return true;
}
}],
and then adding the class validate-revminlength just after required-entry. No changes at all. reviews are still sent even with 2 letters. the strange behaviour is also that if I try to remove the class "required-entry" or if I add something different just like "test" it seems to still work as if nothing has changed. What do I miss? What should I check ?
