Building a Required Fields Set -- Revisited.

A few days ago I posed the question about building a required validation set, to check for empty required fields, and to reject those fields should they be empty..

I received a number of responses, and below is what I finally came to bringing into play.

In short we build an array of those fields which are "empty" and then loop through them, displaying each empty field, without processing the database entry.

Just thought I'd share this tid bit of code, if anyone else has been looking for a way to accomplish this task.

Now all I need to do is assemble an email address validation set, and I'm in business..

Time to play with the EREG functions of PHP URL

//insert validation code here, to valid incoming data before inserting records.
if (!$city) { $missing[] = "City"; }
if (!$state_id) { $missing[] = "State"; }
if (!$zip) { $missing[] = "Zip"; }
if (!$name) { $missing[] = "Name"; }
if (!$address) {$missing[] = "Address"; }
if (!$isp_email) {$missing[] = "ISP Email"; }
if (!$phone_1) {$missing[] = "Phone1"; }

if ($missing) {
for ($i=0; $i < count($missing); $i++) {
echo "<li>".$missing[$i]."</li>n";
}
exit;
}

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[This message has been edited by Robert_J_Sherman (edited June 15, 2000).]

Now all I need to do is assemble an email address validation set


just read this:

http://www2.phpbuilder.com/columns/...616.php3?page=3

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[This message has been edited by Shiju Rajan (edited June 16, 2000).]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Shiju Rajan:

Now all I need to do is assemble an email address validation set


just read this:

http://www2.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3?page=3
[/quote]

Thanks, will take a look at the tutorial.

I'm rather familiar with the regexp aspect of things, from Perl Programming. It's just a matter of translating it all to PHP..

I personally think I'm progressing very quickly here, and am really enjoying the PHP experience!

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