How can I make a field mandatory?

holiar · **Joined:** 2009-06-09 (21:41) **Posts:** 4

As it stands now, the fields "Comment" and "Name" are mandatory and the form will not submit until those fields have been filled out. I want to make the "email address" field mandatory as well. How can I achieve this?
Thanks in advance!

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7351

Just un-coment (remove the two slashes) this line in /configuration/comment_form.inc.php:

Code:

//$g7k_form->addRule('email',     $g7k['text']['txt_valid_email'],    'required');

Ralf

ArtooTeetoo · **Posted:** 2009-12-14 (18:35)

I have applied this to the email and title fields to make them mandatory but now I would like the labels of these 2 fields to be displayed in bold like the others when they are missing. How can I add this effect please?

Thank you very much for your help.

Christele

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7351

Code:

{if $form.email.error} <span class="g7k_error_message">{$form.email.error}</span> {else} {$form.email.label} {/if}

Ralf

ArtooTeetoo · **Posted:** 2009-12-21 (13:42)

Sorry Ralf I posted this message in the wrong forum, I am using the Comments script, not the Guestbook one. My mistake.

But if it's not a problem for you, could you please let me know where I can add a bold effect on the mandatory fields in the Comments script?

Many thanks in advance

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7351

It's the same for the comment script. Just look at the error message of one of the other fields and apply it to the e-mail field.

Ralf

ArtooTeetoo · **Posted:** 2009-12-21 (17:42)

Thanks I found my error, it was coming from the Template comment.tpl.html file, I forgot to apply the <span> error message to the name of the fields.

Now all the error messages of each field are displayed in bold.

Thank you for your help.