Validation with Ajax

As soon as you need to do some date or number validations using javascript, you will notice how cumbersome that attempt could be. Just recently, I had to programm an application which needed some date and number validations prior to the page submittion. I found that using ajax and letting your database do those kind of cheks is a quite elegant way.

In my Demo Application you will find an example

http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:217

showing how easy it is to set it up.

Especially the date validation is funny. It will accept all kinds of date formats:

sep/15.08 03:16:00 AM

sep.15-08 03:16:00 AM

sep/15/08 03

and it will, of course, give you a user friendly message if you go too far and try entering something like this:

14.15-08 03:16:00 AM



or for

10.15-08 13:16:00 AM

you will receive



Try changing your browser language settings from english to any other language and do the excercise again.