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I have a membership form, some members don't have an email address or maybe don't want to provide it.
It seems however that the Form Onsubmit is calling a function to check it.

Looking at the code (inserted by WWB), it seems that if the field is empty, it should just let it go, but it doesn't

function Validateeditprofileform(theForm)
{
var regexp;
regexp = /^([0-9a-z]([-.\w]*[0-9a-z])*@(([0-9a-z])+([-\w]*[0-9a-z])*\.)+[a-z]{2,6})$/i;
if (theForm.email.value.length != 0 && !regexp.test(theForm.email.value))
{
alert("Invalid email address");
theForm.email.focus();
return false;
}
return true;
}
</script>

Why?

The email address cannot be empty. The length cannot be zero.

What? Bad idea...
There are club members without an email address
There those who have an address but don't want to publish it.
Who's idea is that?
Why?

This is by design. Otherwise it options like 'email confirmation' and 'password recovery' would not be possible.
If you need different behavior then you will have to edit the script yourself.

OK, I understand

I arranged with the club secretary to assign a dummy email for those cases.

Now - I tried to implement the Password Recovery, set the object onto a new page by itself, but it fails.
entered my own email address - but it fails.
Is there any documentation on how to implement this?

Cheers

What do you mean by 'it fails'?

Please note that it will not work if you do not have an email address associated with the account.

Fails as in - goes to the Error page
I am using my own email address, which is in the database that I am pointing it to

If you visit that URL and enter : alex4buba@gmail.com you can see what happens.

This object only has an input field and a submit button, there is no field to enter anything else in it

Cheers

There are 3 reasons why the error page can be displayed:
- the database is not accessible.
- email address is not in the database
- the account is not active

Thanks Pablo

I will check all options

OK, I had a typo in the email with one extra letter... It works fine now.
But this leads me to another question - if a member is flagged as Non-Active, can they still login if they know their password?

Otherwise, this is creating a problem for membership renewal...

can they still login if they know their password?

No, users cannot login if the account is not activate, otherwise this option would not have any use.

Thanks Pablo,

I will add another field on the records to indicate if they paid membership

Cheers