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Posted by Laiverd.COM on 03/29/07 19:48
This probably very basic, but my searches and attempts sofar have brought me
nowhere. This is the situation: I have a form with a city field which is
submitted for validation before data are entered into a db. When errors are
found, the user sees the form again with all posted values again in their
respective fields. This all works pretty fine ... except when I have an
entry which starts with a single quote ('). As soon as such an entry is
posted, it will never turn up in the form again after validation.
I found out (at least that is what people are making me believe ;) ) that
this has something to do with magic_quotes being on in the php.ini.
I have tried all kinds of combinations of stripslashes and addslashes, have
used get_magic_quotes_gpc(); to turn it of, even set it to off in my
configuration ... nothing helps: the value will not show up the second time
the form is displayed.
This is what i have
THE FORM PART
<input name='city' type='text' value='".$_POST['city']."' class='big' />
THE VALIDATION
if(!isValid("name", $_POST['city'])){
$errorFlag = false;
$errors['errors'] = true;
$errors['city_err'] = true;
}
THE PART OF THE ISVALID function used
function isValid($type, $string){
$string = trim($string);
switch ($type){
//...
case "name":
return ereg(VALID_NAME,$string);
break;
//...
default:
echo "No valid type specified for check";
break;
}
}
THE REGEXP (which would now return a false for any city with a ' ,but that's
beside the point I think)
define("VALID_NAME","^([A-Z]{1})([a-zA-Z\s \-]+)([a-z])$");
I'm really running out of options here, so if anyone could shed a light on
this ..
Thanks,
John
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