Needing help with alerts on registration page.

[tom fallow]

I am working in PHP and am trying to set up my registration page with javascript alerts for blank fields, too little characters, wrong characters, etc. I have utilized this code:


if (empty($firstname))
{
echo "
<script type = 'text/javascript'>
alert('Please enter your first name.');
</script>";
}


However, when I use this and preview the page using IE, the alert comes up as the page is loading! Is there anyway to make these alerts appear after the submit key is hit?

Thanks,
Tom

[Fed]

hey tom, welcome to the forums...
well, basically what you're doing wrong is that you are using echo to write out a javascript instruction, if you want your alert to be displayed when your visitor hits the button, you simply have to put the javascript instruction without any echo

you might want to have a look at this thread where we check if a box is checked and eventually alert the user with javascript
http://www.tutorialstream.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37

[tom fallow]

Thanks for the hand, Fed. With your help, managed to figure it out!