[drupal-docs] Forms API quick start

[Larry Garfield]

On Saturday 22 October 2005 07:25 am, Dries Buytaert wrote:

> 2. It would saved me some grepping if the quickstart showed me how to
> validate a URL, e-mail address or integer value.  Form validation is
> an important step; having some additional examples would be _really_
> useful.

I've had virtually nothing to do with the new form API yet, but very often 
validation is as simple as "does it meet this format?"  Phone numbers, email 
addresses, integers, ZIP codes, URLs...  Is it too late in the development 
cycle to have a "#validate" field for a form element where you specify a 
PCRE, and then the API automatically flags it invalid if the text doesn't 
match?  That would save a lot of duplicated simple Regex validator calls.

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