jQuery.validator.addMethod("maxWords", function(value, element, params) { 
    return this.optional(element) || value.match(/\b\w+\b/g).length < params; 
}, $.format("Please enter {0} words or less.")); 
 
jQuery.validator.addMethod("minWords", function(value, element, params) { 
    return this.optional(element) || value.match(/\b\w+\b/g).length >= params; 
}, $.format("Please enter at least {0} words.")); 
 
jQuery.validator.addMethod("rangeWords", function(value, element, params) { 
    return this.optional(element) || value.match(/\b\w+\b/g).length >= params[0] && value.match(/bw+b/g).length < params[1]; 
}, $.format("Please enter between {0} and {1} words."));


jQuery.validator.addMethod("letterswithbasicpunc", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^[a-z-.,()'\"\s]+$/i.test(value);
}, "Letters or punctuation only please");  

jQuery.validator.addMethod("alphanumeric", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^\w-+$/i.test(value);
}, "Letters, numbers, spaces or underscores only please");  

jQuery.validator.addMethod("alphanumeric_no_space", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^\w-\S+$/i.test(value);
}, "Letters, numbers, underscores or hyphens only please");

jQuery.validator.addMethod("lettersonly", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^[a-z]+$/i.test(value);
}, "Letters only please"); 

jQuery.validator.addMethod("nowhitespace", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^\S+$/i.test(value);
}, "No white space please"); 

// same as url
jQuery.validator.addMethod("pagelyurl", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^([a-zA-Z0-9]([a-zA-Z0-9\-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$/i.test(value); 
}, jQuery.format("Please enter a valid domain name"));

jQuery.validator.addMethod("ziprange", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^90[2-5]\d\{2}-\d{4}$/.test(value);
}, "Your ZIP-code must be in the range 902xx-xxxx to 905-xx-xxxx");


/**
 * matches US phone number format 
 * 
 * where the area code may not start with 1 and the prefix may not start with 1 
 * allows '-' or ' ' as a separator and allows parens around area code 
 * some people may want to put a '1' in front of their number 
 * 
 * 1(212)-999-2345
 * or
 * 212 999 2344
 * or
 * 212-999-0983
 * 
 * but not
 * 111-123-5434
 * and not
 * 212 123 4567
 */
jQuery.validator.addMethod("phone", function(phone_number, element) {
    phone_number = phone_number.replace(/\s+/g, ""); 
	return this.optional(element) || phone_number.length > 9 &&
		phone_number.match(/^(1-?)?(\([2-9]\d{2}\)|[2-9]\d{2})-?[2-9]\d{2}-?\d{4}$/);
}, "Please specify a valid phone number");

// TODO check if value starts with <, otherwise don't try stripping anything
jQuery.validator.addMethod("strippedminlength", function(value, element, param) {
	return jQuery(value).text().length >= param;
}, jQuery.format("Please enter at least {0} characters"));