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Posted by Jerim79 on 11/10/06 21:00
I am looking into form validation for my HTML form. I don't want to use
javascript and was looking into using PHP. A crazy thought crossed my
mind and I just wanted to get some input.
What if I basically made the form one long if/then statement? I could
ask for the first piece of information, test it against some
conditions, then if it is okay I allow the user to fill in the next
piece of information. I could go do down the page validation each box
as we go. I could use hidden on all the text boxes until the previous
condition had been validated. Some pseudocode:
<?php
<form action=POST method=registered.php>
<input name"Fname" type="text">
if ($Fname meets some condition)
{
<input name="Lname" type="text">
if ($Lname meets some condition)
{
<input name="Number" type="text>
if ($Number meets some condition)
{
}
}
}
else;
echo "Please enter a phone number";
else;
echo "Please enter a valid last name";
else;
echo "Please enter a valid first name";
?>
I know the code isn't exact, I am just theorizing here. Could such a
thing be done? Even remotely similar? I don't really plan on doing this
anytime soon, but I was just curious. I only started PHP programming a
few days ago so no need to point out how stupid this may sound.
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