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Posted by nice.guy.nige on 04/01/06 20:29
While the city slept, LeftHorn (leftnospamhorn@spameenoono.nu) feverishly
typed...
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem...Got a webpage with alot of different input fields
> - where a user can maintain a database.
>
> They are allowed to use 'spaces' in their textfields, sometimes they
> require to insert a space in the end, sometimes it would be fatal if
> they do
[spaces at end of fields]
There are a couple of options. One as mentioned is to test the data when it
is received. If you know what fields are *not* allowed to have spaces at the
end you can strip them. Also, you can scan the fields (server side),
checking the last character in each one where there may be a problem. If the
last character is a space, you can warn the user and ask them to edit the
field. And another also, use something like PHP to display the contents of
the field (outside of a text box) wrapped in something like square brackets.
This is something I have done in the past in C programming so I can the full
content of a string, including leading or trailing spaces. Something like
<p>[<?=$field1?>]</p>.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Nige
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