ColdBox RequiredFields cfc

gistfile1.cfm

<cfcomponent name="RequiredFields" extends="coldbox.system.plugin" output="false">

    <cffunction name="init" access="public" returntype="RequiredFields" output="false">
        <cfargument name="controller" type="any" required="true">
        <cfset super.Init(arguments.controller) />
        <cfset setpluginName("Required Fields Plugin")>
        <cfset setpluginVersion("1.0")>
        <cfset setpluginDescription("This plugin checks for form validations and checks for completed fields")>
        <cfreturn this>
    </cffunction>
    
    <cffunction name="validate" access="public" output="false" returntype="struct">
        <cfargument name="fields" type="string" required="true" />
        <cfargument name="collection" type="struct" required="true" />
        
        <cfset var _result = structNew() />
        <cfset var _required = arguments.fields />
        <cfset var _message = '' />
        
        <cfset _result.message = _message />        
        <cfset _result.success = true />

        <cfloop list="#_required#" index="i" delimiters=",">
            <cfif structKeyExists(collection,i) and collection[i] eq ''>
                <cfset _message = listAppend(_message,i,',') />
            </cfif>
        </cfloop>
        
        <cfif _message neq ''>
            <cfset _result.success = false />
            <cfset _result.message = 'Please complete the following fields :>br/<'&rereplacenocase(_message,',',', ','ALL') />
        <cfelse>
            <cfset _result.message = 'Your details have been sent' /> 
        </cfif>

        <cfreturn _result />    
    </cffunction>


</cfcomponent>