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At the moment, if someone submits a form incorrectly on the frontend using EE it takes me to a seperate page with a list of the errors. I was hoping that I could customize this page so that it looks like the rest of the site. Unfortunately, that template file runs all of the user mesages (which also screws up the fact that I want to show a custom page for all redirecting messages, which looks it can’t be done)

So, two questions really:

1) How do I show errors inline
2) How do I create multiple designs for the user message templates?

kingscotty,

Eacy Contact Form Validation

Try this solution first. I use it to validate some 3rd party forms using Solspace’s Freeform offering.

not quite what im looking for, but interesting either way!

I want to show EE’s PHP errors at the top of the page, rather than in a new page

What this does is force the user to fix their errors before going on. It’s inline validation. So if you require a particular field, they can’t submit until the field is filled in.

yup, but the user may not have javascript enabled…

You can’t by default- though you might be able to workaround it via an iframe?  Flipping out designs for the user message template is also problematic as php and standard EE tags won’t be parsed in the specialty templates.

I think you’re going to need a hack, extension or some creative ajax/frames going on to achieve what you want.  I could switch this over to ‘How to’ for some brainstorming if you like.  But ‘out of the box’, the user message template just isn’t quite designed for it.