517293 - Shouldn't be able to submit empty forum posts

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Forum, task)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

I've been able to successfully post empty forum posts; see, e.g.:

http://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-view_forum.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1

Comment 1

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Attachment: patch, v1

This prevent just whitespace from being used in the question field and requires a non-whitespace description on the last step. Neither field has a minimum length.

Comment 2

[Laura Thomson :laura]

Comment on attachment 402198 [details] [diff] [review]
patch, v1

I'd be happier if we added some server side validation to this, but this works fine - if you have time a revised patch would be great.

Comment 3

[[:Cww]]

FWIW, the no-JS form complains appropriately if you leave either of those blank.

http://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-ask_a_question.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1

Comment 4

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

r52167 / r52168

It looks like it does do server-side validation: lines 62 and 157 of tiki-ask_a_question.php.

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED on https://support-stage.mozilla.org/tiki-view_forum.php?locale=en-US&comments_remove=1&comments_threadId=446792&forumId=1&comments_threshold=0&comments_offset=0&thread_sort_mode=lastPost_desc&comments_per_page=20#.

I spun-off bug 518276.