[Javascript] Question: Getting 2 functions to work on 1 onclick event

[Esther_Strom at hmco.com]

Why not have your MM_validateForm() function call Save_onClick() if it
returns the results you want? You have this section:



if (errors) alert('The following error(s) occurred:\n'+errors);


document.MM_returnValue = (errors == '');


Why not modify it to:



if (errors) {
     alert('The following error(s) occurred:\n'+errors);
     document.MM_returnValue = (errors=='');
}
else {
Save_onClick();
}

(Not sure of the curly braces; it's been a while and I wasn't looking at
your original that closely. But there's no reason you can't call the save
function from inside the validate function.)

Hope this helps,

Esther



                                                                                                                       
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Any idea how I can get 2 functions to work on the same onclick event?


The first function is a modified Dreamweaver validation script which uses
alert to pop up a window with information on which form fields have not
been completed.


If all fields are complete then it returns no alert window.


function MM_validateForm() { //v4.0


var i,p,q,nm,test,num,min,max,errors='',args=MM_validateForm.arguments;


for (i=0; i<(args.length-2); i+=3) { test=args[i+2];
val=MM_findObj(args[i]);


if (val) { nm=val.name; if ((val=val.value)!="") {


if (test.indexOf('isEmail')!=-1) { p=val.indexOf('@');


if (p<1 || p==(val.length-1)) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain an e-mail
address.\n';


} else if (test!='R') {


if (isNaN(val)) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain a number.\n';


if (test.indexOf('inRange') != -1) { p=test.indexOf(':');


min=test.substring(8,p); max=test.substring(p+1);


if (val<min || max<val) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain a number between '
+min+' and '+max+'.\n';


} } } else if (test.charAt(0) == 'R') errors += '- '+nm+' is required.\n';
}


} if (errors) alert('The following error(s) occurred:\n'+errors);


document.MM_returnValue = (errors == '');


}


The second function submits the form information for processing to another
page I have.


function Save_onclick() {


SaveForm.Page.value = otherDoc.body.outerHTML;


SaveForm.submit();


}


Both functions work flawlessly by themselves.


However I want MM_validateForm() to be processed first and if it returns no
errors then I want Save_onclick() to run.


This only runs Save_onclick() and never gets to MM_validateForm()


<input type="button" value="Submit Bulletin" name="Save" LANGUAGE=
"javascript"


onclick="return Save_onclick();MM_validateForm
('ndate','','R','title','','R','printdate','','R','email','','R','moreinfo','','R');return

document.MM_returnValue">


and this only runs MM_validateForm() but doesn't run Save_onclick even if
MM_validateForm returns no errors.


<input type="button" value="Submit Bulletin" name="Save" LANGUAGE=
"javascript"


onclick="MM_validateForm
('ndate','','R','title','','R','printdate','','R','email','','R','moreinfo','','R');return

document.MM_returnValue;return Save_onclick()">


I appreciate any assistance on how I write the syntax so that
MM_validateForm() runs first and if no error messages are generated then
Save_onclick() runs.


Thanks so much.