mslovak

Thank you for your response and suggestion. I tried this:

Presenter Bio for Brochure (50 words or less)|Enter no more than 50 words|^\W*(?:\w+\b\W*){1,50}$|err:Enter no more than 50 words

Which seemed to work perfectly. When I entered more than 50 words it gave me my error. When I entered less than 50 words it passed and posted.

However there seems to be a problem. The data in the field is not posted. I only get blanks even when there are fewer than 50 words.

I first entered 60 words, got an error, reduced it to 40 which posted but I received no text in the field. I next simply entered 10 words and posted but received no text in the field. All other fields post their data so it seems as if when there is a regx that the data isn’t posted, unless I am doing something else wrong. The text above is exactly what is in the field definition.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Marc

Thanks for the response Alex,

Here is the post again as you asked for it. I had previous done it this way (first snippet at the top of the page and then just output the input string as a hidden variable in the form. I guess I could just as easily done this as one snippet in the form. You seem to be indicating that the value of the variables in one snippet is not available in other snippets on a page. I can deal with that in this instance but if that is the way this works I would consider that a serious limitation – especially since it worked fine that way before.

Snippet 1 is designed to take some posted data and add 3% to an amount and create an input string that goes into a form as follows:

$amt = $_POST[“cf3_field_7″];
$amt = $amt + (.03 * $amt);
$amt = round($amt,2);
$theamount = ‘<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="‘.$amt.'">’;

The second snippet simply echos $theamount as a line in a form

echo $theamount;

However when I do this the input line does not appear in the form and no amount is sent. I looked at the source code and the input statement in $theamount doesn’t appear but instead it renders <br><br>

I didn’t try your new version but i was able to upgrade to php 5.6 FAST cgi on my host and updates to forms seem to work fine now. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Much appreciated.