{"id":9105,"date":"2022-09-17T05:24:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T23:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-php-simple-form-validation\/"},"modified":"2022-09-17T05:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T23:54:19","slug":"solved-php-simple-form-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-php-simple-form-validation\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] PHP Simple Form Validation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-19790798\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"19790798\" data-parentid=\"19790601\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>You have the following in your code:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$name = $_POST['$name'];\n$email = $_POST['$email'];\n$dob = $_POST['$dob'];\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You&#8217;re basically trying to access undefined indexes. Remove the extra <code>$<\/code> from the key names:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$name = $_POST['name'];\n$email = $_POST['email'];\n$dob = $_POST['dob'];\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Then, further below, you have some conditions like this:<\/p>\n<pre><code>if(condition == true) {\n    continue;\n} else {\n    \/\/ do something\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually not necessary, and you could change it to:<\/p>\n<pre><code>if(!condition) {\n    \/\/ do something\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s better to push the error messages into an array (<code>$errors<\/code>) and then loop through it and display the error messages. It might help organize your code a bit better.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the modified code looks like:<\/p>\n<pre><code>if(!empty($_POST)) {\n    $name = $_POST['name'];\n    $email = $_POST['email'];\n    $dob = $_POST['dob'];\n\n    $namelen = strlen($name);\n    $emaillen = strlen($email);\n    $max = 255;\n    $minname = 2;\n    $minemail = 3;\n\n    if($namelen &lt; $minname){\n        $errors[] = \"name must be at least 2 characters\";\n    } elseif($namelen &gt; $max){\n        $errors[] = \"name must be less than 255 characters\";\n    }\n\n    if($emaillen &lt; $minemail){\n        $errors[] = \"email must be at least 3 characters\";\n    } elseif($emaillen &gt; $max){\n        $errors[] = \"email must be less than 255 characters\";\n    }\n\n    if(empty($name)){\n        $errors[] = \"name is required\";\n    }\n\n    if(empty($email)){\n        $errors[] = \"email cannot be left empty\";\n    }\n\n    if(!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){\n        $errors[] = \"invalid email\";\n    }\n\n    echo \"&lt;ul&gt;\";\n    foreach ($errors as $error) {\n        echo \"&lt;li&gt;$error&lt;\/li&gt;\";\n    }\n    echo \"&lt;\/ul&gt;\";\n\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>It could still be improved, but however, this should get you started!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">0<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved PHP Simple Form Validation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] You have the following in your code: $name = $_POST[&#8216;$name&#8217;]; $email = $_POST[&#8216;$email&#8217;]; $dob = $_POST[&#8216;$dob&#8217;]; You&#8217;re basically trying to access undefined indexes. 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