This module provides a variety of configurable validation rules for your Drupal fields, including checks for email format, minimum/maximum length, specific patterns, numeric ranges, and uniqueness. It also offers advanced options like validation against other fields, custom PHP code, and a blacklist for specific words, with an additional submodule offering even more validation types.
This module provides a collection of configurable validation rules for your field instances.
Available validators
7.x 8.x Color (HTML5) ✓ (*) Date range ✓ ✓ Date (ISO) ✓ (*) EAN number ✓ (*) Email ✓ ✓ Equal values on multiple fields ✓ ✓ Field collection unique ✓ (*) Integer values ✓ (*) ✓ IP Address ✓ (*) ✓ Length (optionally specify min and / max length) ✓ ✓ Match against a field ✓ ✓ Match against a property ✓ Must be empty (Anti-Spam: hide with CSS) ✓ ✓ Number of words (optionally specify min / max words) ✓ ✓ Numeric values (optionally specify min / max value) ✓ ✓ Numeric (HTML5, with min / max / step options) ✓ (*) Pattern (regular expression lite) ✓ ✓ Phone ✓ (*) ✓ PHP code (powerfull but dangerous) ✓ Plain text (disallow tags) ✓ ✓ Postal code (depend on Postal Code Validation, support Address Field) ✓ (*) Regular expression ✓ ✓ Regular expression (Perl-Compatible) ✓ (*) Require at least one of several fields ✓ ✓ Require some of several fields ✓ (*) Required field ✓ (*) Specific value(s) ✓ ✓ Unique ✓ ✓ Unique values on multiple fields ✓ URL (support internal path and external URL validation) ✓ ✓ Words blacklist ✓ ✓
(*) = provided by the (included) field_validation_extras submodule in 7.x
Since 7.x-2.1, we add another sub module property validation which could solve validation issues for property(non-field), such as title, Ubercat SKU, list_price.
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Requirements
7.x
- Ctools
- Entity API (For property validation)
8.x
Just Drupal core.
Documentation
- Lullabot write a doc for this module: Write complex validation rules for your fields (7.x), at http://www.lullabot.com/articles/module-monday-field-validation
- Docs on drupal.org: http://drupal.org/node/1299698
- Date range document: http://drupal.org/node/1438436
- PHP code validator document: https://www.drupal.org/node/1537028
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Depends on
Dependencies of the latest stable release
- field Drupal core
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Activity
Release Timeline
Releases
| Version | Type | Core | PHP | Release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0.0 | Stable | 10–11 | PHP ^8.0 | Oct 1, 2026 | |
| 3.0.0-rc2 | Pre-release | 10–11 | PHP ^8.0 | Sep 16, 2026 | |
| 3.0.0-rc1 | Pre-release | 10–11 | PHP ^8.0 | Sep 9, 2026 | |
| 3.0.0-beta7 | Pre-release | 10–11 | Jun 12, 2026 | ||
| 3.0.0-beta6 | Pre-release | 10–11 | Oct 7, 2025 | ||
| 3.0.0-beta5 | Pre-release | 10–11 | Sep 17, 2025 | ||
| 3.0.0-beta4 | Pre-release | 10–11 | Nov 13, 2024 | ||
| 3.0.0-beta3 | Pre-release | 9–10 | PHP ^8.0 | Jan 3, 2024 | |
| 3.0.0-beta2 | Pre-release | 9–10 | PHP ^8.0 | Sep 24, 2023 | |
| 3.0.0-beta1 | Pre-release | 9–10 | Aug 21, 2023 |