Added ignore field feature

very useful on dynamic forms and for example when you have hidden fields inside TABS (so you are forced to enable the "validateNonVisibleFields") BUT you still have others hidden fields you don't want to validate

Author: bygiro

js/jquery.validationEngine.js

@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@
 				var form = element.closest('form, .validationEngineContainer'),
 					options = (form.data('jqv')) ? form.data('jqv') : $.validationEngine.defaults,
 					valid = methods._validateField(element, options);
-				}
 			}
 			if(options.onValidationComplete) {
 				// !! ensures that an undefined return is interpreted as return false but allows a onValidationComplete() to possibly return true and have form continue processing
@@ -520,6 +519,9 @@
 				++$.validationEngine.fieldIdCounter;
 			}
 
+			if(field.hasClass(options.ignoreFieldsWithClass))
+				return false;
+				
            if (!options.validateNonVisibleFields && (field.is(":hidden") && !options.prettySelect || field.parent().is(":hidden")))
 				return false;
 
@@ -668,6 +670,12 @@
 							required = true;
 						}
 						break;
+					case "funcCallRequired":
+						errorMsg = methods._getErrorMessage(form, field, rules[i], rules, i, options, methods._funcCallRequired);
+						if (errorMsg !== undefined) {
+							required = true;
+						}
+						break;
 
 					default:
 				}
@@ -693,6 +701,14 @@
 							break;
 					}
 				}
+				
+				//funcCallRequired, first in rules, and has error, skip anything else
+				if( i==0 && str.indexOf('funcCallRequired')==0 && errorMsg !== undefined ){
+					promptText += errorMsg + "<br/>";
+					options.isError=true;
+					field_errors++;
+					end_validation=true;
+				}
 
 				// If it has been specified that validation should end now, break
 				if (end_validation) {
@@ -803,7 +819,7 @@
 			 // Otherwise if we are doing a function call, make the call and return the object
 			 // that is passed back.
 	 		 var rule_index = jQuery.inArray(rule, rules);
-			 if (rule === "custom" || rule === "funcCall") {
+			 if (rule === "custom" || rule === "funcCall" || rule === "funcCallRequired") {
 				 var custom_validation_type = rules[rule_index + 1];
 				 rule = rule + "[" + custom_validation_type + "]";
 				 // Delete the rule from the rules array so that it doesn't try to call the
@@ -888,6 +904,7 @@
 			 "minCheckbox": "range-underflow",
 			 "equals": "pattern-mismatch",
 			 "funcCall": "custom-error",
+			 "funcCallRequired": "custom-error",
 			 "creditCard": "pattern-mismatch",
 			 "condRequired": "value-missing"
 		 },
@@ -1041,6 +1058,9 @@
 				return fn(field, rules, i, options);
 
 		},
+		_funcCallRequired: function(field, rules, i, options) {
+			return methods._funcCall(field,rules,i,options);
+		},
 		/**
 		* Field match
 		*
@@ -2002,8 +2022,10 @@
 		focusFirstField:true,
 		// Show prompts, set to false to disable prompts
 		showPrompts: true,
-       // Should we attempt to validate non-visible input fields contained in the form? (Useful in cases of tabbed containers, e.g. jQuery-UI tabs)
-       validateNonVisibleFields: false,
+		// Should we attempt to validate non-visible input fields contained in the form? (Useful in cases of tabbed containers, e.g. jQuery-UI tabs)
+		validateNonVisibleFields: false,
+		// ignore the validation for fields with this specific class (Useful in cases of tabbed containers AND hidden fields we don't want to validate)
+		ignoreFieldsWithClass: 'ignoreMe',	   
 		// Opening box position, possible locations are: topLeft,
 		// topRight, bottomLeft, centerRight, bottomRight, inline
 		// inline gets inserted after the validated field or into an element specified in data-prompt-target
@@ -2075,5 +2097,3 @@
 	}};
 	$(function(){$.validationEngine.defaults.promptPosition = methods.isRTL()?'topLeft':"topRight"});
 })(jQuery);
-
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