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Form Validation - PHP

The document provides a PHP form validation example that includes functions to sanitize user input and check for required fields. It demonstrates how to validate names, emails, websites, comments, and gender, along with error handling for invalid inputs. Additionally, it includes regular expressions for validating email formats and URLs.

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Form Validation - PHP

The document provides a PHP form validation example that includes functions to sanitize user input and check for required fields. It demonstrates how to validate names, emails, websites, comments, and gender, along with error handling for invalid inputs. Additionally, it includes regular expressions for validating email formats and URLs.

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PHP Form Validation Example

p2-formvalidation.php function test_input($data) {


$data = trim($data);
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html> $data = stripslashes($data);
<head> $data = htmlspecialchars($data);
</head> return $data;
<body> }
?>
<?php
// define variables and set to empty values
$name = $email = $gender = $comment = $website = "";

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
$name = test_input($_POST["name"]);
$email = test_input($_POST["email"]);
$website = test_input($_POST["website"]);
$comment = test_input($_POST["comment"]);
$gender = test_input($_POST["gender"]);
}
PHP Forms - Required Fields
p2-formvalidation-2.php if (empty($_POST["comment"])) {
<?php $comment = "";
// define variables and set to empty values } else {
$nameErr = $emailErr = $genderErr = $websiteErr = ""; $comment = test_input($_POST["comment"]);
$name = $email = $gender = $comment = $website = ""; }

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") { if (empty($_POST["gender"])) {


if (empty($_POST["name"])) { $genderErr = "Gender is required";
$nameErr = "Name is required";
} else {
} else {
$name = test_input($_POST["name"]); $gender = test_input($_POST["gender"]);
} }
}
if (empty($_POST["email"])) {
$emailErr = "Email is required"; function test_input($data) {
} else { $data = trim($data);
$email = test_input($_POST["email"]); $data = stripslashes($data);
} $data = htmlspecialchars($data);
if (empty($_POST["website"])) { return $data;
$website = ""; }
} else { ?>
$website = test_input($_POST["website"]);
}
PHP Forms - Required Fields (cont…)
p2-formvalidation-2.php
<h2>PHP Form Validation Example</h2>
<p><span class="error">* required field</span></p>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);?>">
Name: <input type="text" name="name">
<span class="error">* <?php echo $nameErr;?></span>
<br><br>
E-mail: <input type="text" name="email">
<span class="error">* <?php echo $emailErr;?></span>
<br><br>
Website: <input type="text" name="website">
<span class="error"><?php echo $websiteErr;?></span>
<br><br>
Comment: <textarea name="comment" rows="5" cols="40"></textarea>
<br><br>
Gender:
<input type="radio" name="gender" value="female">Female
<input type="radio" name="gender" value="male">Male
<input type="radio" name="gender" value="other">Other
<span class="error">* <?php echo $genderErr;?></span>
<br><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
PHP Forms - Validate E-mail and URL
p2-formvalidation-email_URL.php
<?php if (empty($_POST["email"])) {
// define variables and set to empty values $emailErr = "Email is required";
$nameErr = $emailErr = $genderErr = $websiteErr = ""; } else {
$name = $email = $gender = $comment = $website = ""; $email = test_input($_POST["email"]);
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") { // check if e-mail address is well-formed
if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
$emailErr = "Invalid email format";
if (empty($_POST["name"])) {
$nameErr = "Name is required"; }
} else { }
$name = test_input($_POST["name"]);
// check if name only contains letters and if (empty($_POST["website"])) {
$website = "";
whitespace } else {
if (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z-' ]*$/",$name)) {
$nameErr = "Only letters and white space allowed"; $website = test_input($_POST["website"]);
} // check if URL address syntax is valid
} if (!preg_match("/\b(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[-a-z0-
9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]/i",$website)) {
$websiteErr = "Invalid URL";
}
}
PHP Forms - Validate E-mail and URL (cont…)
p2-formvalidation-email_URL.php
if (empty($_POST["comment"])) {
$comment = "";
} else {
$comment = test_input($_POST["comment"]);
}

if (empty($_POST["gender"])) {
$genderErr = "Gender is required";
} else {
$gender = test_input($_POST["gender"]);
}
}

function test_input($data) {
$data = trim($data);
$data = stripslashes($data);
$data = htmlspecialchars($data);
return $data;
}
?>
1. preg_match() is a PHP function used for performing a regular expression match.
2. The regular expression pattern is enclosed within /.../, which checks for the validity of a URL.
3. \b asserts a word boundary, ensuring that the match starts at the beginning of a word.
4. (?:https?|ftp):\/\/ matches either "http://", "https://", or "ftp://".
5. www\. matches "www.".
6. [-a-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*: This matches any combination of characters
commonly found in URLs after the protocol
or "www." part.
7. [-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]: This matches the last part of the URL.
8. i at the end of the pattern makes the match case-insensitive.

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