// Form Validation Functions  v1.1.6
// documentation: http://www.dithered.com/javascript/form_validation/index.html
// license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/
// code by Chris Nott (chris[at]dithered[dot]com)

// Big thanks to Chris Nott for this code. He is a rock star.

function getFormErrors(form) {
   var errors = new Array();
   
   // loop thru all form elements
   for (var elementIndex = 0; elementIndex < form.elements.length; elementIndex++) {
      var element = form.elements[elementIndex];
     
      // text and textarea types
      if (element.type == "text" || element.type == "textarea") {
         element.value = trimWhitespace(element.value)
         
         // required element
         if (element.required  && element.value == '') {
            errors[errors.length] = element.requiredError;
         }
         else if (element.pattern) {
            if (element.pattern.toLowerCase() == 'email' && isValidEmailStrict(element.value) == false) {
               errors[errors.length] = element.patternError;
            }
         }
      }
		}
	return errors;
}


// Check that an email address is valid based on RFC 821 (?)
function isValidEmail(address) {
	if (address != '' && address.search) {
      if (address.search(/^\w+((-\w+)|(\.\w+))*\@[A-Za-z0-9]+((\.|-)[A-Za-z0-9]+)*\.[A-Za-z0-9]+$/) != -1) return true;
      else return false;
	}
	
   // allow empty strings to return true - screen these with either a 'required' test or a 'length' test
   else return true;
}

// Check that an email address has the form something@something.something
// This is a stricter standard than RFC 821 (?) which allows addresses like postmaster@localhost
function isValidEmailStrict(address) {
	if (isValidEmail(address) == false) return false;
	var domain = address.substring(address.indexOf('@') + 1);
	if (domain.indexOf('.') == -1) return false;
	if (domain.indexOf('.') == 0 || domain.indexOf('.') == domain.length - 1) return false;
	return true;
}

// Remove characters that might cause security problems from a string 
function removeBadCharacters(string) {
	if (string.replace) {
		string.replace(/[<>\"\'%;\)\(&\+]/, '');
	}
	return string;
}

// Remove all spaces from a string
function removeSpaces(string) {
	var newString = '';
	for (var i = 0; i < string.length; i++) {
		if (string.charAt(i) != ' ') newString += string.charAt(i);
	}
	return newString;
}

// Remove leading and trailing whitespace from a string
function trimWhitespace(string) {
	var newString  = '';
	var substring  = '';
	beginningFound = false;
	
	// copy characters over to a new string
	// retain whitespace characters if they are between other characters
	for (var i = 0; i < string.length; i++) {
		
		// copy non-whitespace characters
		if (string.charAt(i) != ' ' && string.charCodeAt(i) != 9) {
			
			// if the temporary string contains some whitespace characters, copy them first
			if (substring != '') {
				newString += substring;
				substring = '';
			}
			newString += string.charAt(i);
			if (beginningFound == false) beginningFound = true;
		}
		
		// hold whitespace characters in a temporary string if they follow a non-whitespace character
		else if (beginningFound == true) substring += string.charAt(i);
	}
	return newString;
}