CSC220 Registration Form Details

Form Types

This form can either be self-reloading, or be sent to a processing page.

Form Features

• Validation: the form should be able to tell whether a mandatory field has an assigned value, and return an error message if there is no assigned value (i.e. if email field was left blank).
• Email Validation: the form should be able to validate the syntax of the email address, so that no user can enter random characters as an email address.
• DB Insertion: the form should insert the values into a table, called "userInfo".
• Insertion Validation: the form should not insert the values into the table if there is already somebody "registered" under the same email address.

Form Elements

• Email address (text box)
• Affiliation (drop down menu)
  • First-Year, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Ada Comstock, Faculty, Other
• School (drop down menu)
  • Smith, UMass-Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst, Other
• Housing Area (drop down menu)
  • Green Street, Center Campus, East Quad, West Quad, Upper Elm, Lower Elm, Off Campus
• Major/Department/Other (drop down menu)
  • List of all majors, including "Other", "Undecided" and "None"
• Second Major (drop down menu)
  • List of all majors, including "Other", "Undecided" and "None"
• Phone Type (drop down menu)
  • iPhone, Android, Other
• Interest (drop down menu)
  • Athlete, Musician, Dancer, Performer, Student Government, Volunteering, Other

Misc. Form Elements

• Submit (button): to send the information to the processing page
• Reset (button): to reset all fields to the default values

Comments to Think About

• "What might be easier is to group majors into the seven divisions of the Latin Honors (as there are a heck of a lot of majors, and the list gets kind of unwieldy). For reference, the groupings are Literature, Social Science, Historical Studies, Foreign Language, Natural Science, Mathematics/Analytical Philosophy, and Arts." - Amy T.
• "All of the fields that we decide are optional should to have an easy way to not give that information. For example, if we are using a drop-down list of Majors, we should have the default option be blank so the use has to deliberately select one. Also, there should be a distinction between what is required and what is not; like an asterisk by the required fields." - RB A.