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PHP-FORM VALIDATION
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PHP-6: PHP Forms

When a forms Submit button is clicked, the form is submitted. Where?
How? What happens then?
Where? - The form is submitted to the URL mentioned in the Action attribute
of the form. Usually this URL refers to a web page on the server.
How? The forms data is sent to the server. This data is sent by Get or
Post method, whichever is mentioned in the Method attribute of the form.
What happens then? The web page (on the server) processes this data
and performs the requisite operation. This requisite operation may be to
generate another relevant web page and to send it to the user, or just to
prepare an acknowledgement and send it to the user, or any other
operation.
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The superglobal $_SERVER can be used to check the method used for form
submission. To understand this, create an HTML file with two forms one to
be submitted by POST method and one to be submitted by GET method.
Sample code is given below:
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A form can be submitted to the page containing the form itself by specifying the
files URL in action attribute. To avoid any mistake in specifying the URL, we can
use:
<?php echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF] ?>
<?php
echo "form submitted by ".$_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"]." method"; ?>
<html>
<body>
<form name="f1" method= POST" action="<?php echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF];?>">
Name: <input type= "text" name="uName" value = "<?php echo $_POST [uName] ;?>">
<input type= submit>
</form>
<form name="f2" method=GET" action="<?php echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF];?>>
Name: <input type=" text" name="uName" value = "<?php echo $_GET [uName];?>">
</form>
</body> </html>
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Observe the Last line of the output

which states that Form submitted
using GET method. The page is just
loaded and the user has not clicked any
submit button, even then the page is
reporting that Form submitted using
GET method. The reason is that
$_SERVER[REQUEST_METHOD] takes
the default value GET even if no form is
submitted. If we submit the form after
loading the page, it will work as
expected.
The $_POST variable is used to

collect values from a form with
method="post
Information sent from a form with
the POST method is invisible to
others and has no limits on the
amount of information to send
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The $_GET variable is used to collect values from a form with

method="get"
Information sent from a form with the GET method is visible to
everyone (it will be displayed in the browser's address bar) and it
has limits on the amount of information to send Data sent by GET
method is restricted to 1024 characters.
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A forms data is received by the php file (specified in the

Action attribute of the form) in the superglobals $_POST
and $_GET depending on the method used to submit the
form.
The data is also received in the Superglobal $_REQUEST
irrespective of the method used to submit the form.
$_POST, $_GET, and $_REQUEST are associative arrays
with the indices represented by the names of the controls on
the form and the values are the values of the controls on the
form. This is shown in the following example:
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<html> <body>
<form name="f1 method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF]; ?>">
Name: <input type= "text" name="uName" value="<?php echo $_POST[uName];?>">
Age: <input type= "text" name="uAge" value = "<?php echo $_POST[uAge];?>">
</form>
<form name="f2" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF] ?>">

Name: <input type=" text" name="uName" value="<?php echo $_GET[uName];?>">
Age: <input type= "text" name="uAge" value = "<?php echo $_GET[uAge];?>">
</form>
<?php
echo $_POST[uName]."<br>";
echo $_POST[uAge]."<br>";
echo $_GET[uName]."<br>";
echo $_GET[uAge]."<br>";
echo $_REQUEST[uName]."<br>";
echo $_REQUEST[uAge]."<br>"; ?>
</body> </html>
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There is another way to check whether a form is submitted or not. If submitted,
then by which method. This is done by using the function function isset() along
with superglobals $_GET and $_POST Following code shows how to do it.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
echo "For Submitted by POST method";
else if (isset($_GET['submit']))
echo "For Submitted by GET method";
else echo " Please Fill the form and submit";
?>
<html><body>
<form name="f2" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF] ?>">
Name: <input type=" text" name="uName" value="<?php echo $_POST[uName];?>">
<input type= submit name=submit>
</form>
<form name="f2" method= "get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF] ?>">
Name: <input type=" text" name="uName" value = "<?php echo $_GET[uName] ;?>">
<input type= submit name="submit">
</form>
</body></html>
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The function isset() is used to check if a variable is declared and has some
value assigned to it. The function empty() is used to check whether a
variable is empty. The function empty() and isset() are opposite of each
other as shown in following example:
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There are multiple uses of the function preg_match(). Here it is used to check
whether a given string is in a particular pattern or not. It is done for two cases:
To check that name contains alphabets and spaces only
To check that age (or any other numeric value) contains digits only
For this purpose preg_match() uses regular expressions. Regular expressions
are not in our syllabus and there these are not discussed here in details. The
regular expression /^[a-zA-z ]+$/ specifies a string of one or more alphabets
(any combination of small and capital alphabets) and spaces. The regular
expression /^[0-9]{1,3}$/ specifies a string of digits, the length of the string
can be 1 to 3 digits.
/ / start & end of regular expression
^ starts with
$ ends with
{start, end } indicates length between start and end
[ ] group
/[a-zA-z ]/ represent any alphabet upper or lower case only
[0-9] represent any number from 0 to 9
Example:
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Basic Regular Expression

/abc/
in PHP, regexes are strings that

begin and end with /
the simplest regexes simply match a
particular substring
the above regular expression
matches any string containing "abc":
YES: "abc", "abcdef", "defabc",
".=.abc.=.", ...
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NO: "fedcba", "ab c", "PHP", ...
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Wildcards
A dot . matches any character
except a \n line break
"/.oo.y/" matches "Doocy", "goofy",
"LooNy", ...
A trailing i at the end of a regex

(after the closing /) signifies a
case-insensitive match
"/is/i" matches Tennis", His",
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Special characters: |, (), ^, \

| means OR
"/abc|def|g/" matches "abc", "def", or
"g"
There's no AND symbol. Why not?
() are for grouping

"/(FAIPS|DPS) Kuwait/" matches FAIPS
Kuwait" or DPS Kuwait"
^ matches the beginning of a line; $

the end
"/^
<HTML>
<BODY>
Your favourite color is <font color = <?php echo $_GET["favclr"]; ?> >
<?php echo $_GET["favclr"]; ?> </font>
</BODY>

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PHP-6: PHP Forms

Observe the Last line of the output

The $_POST variable is used to

The $_GET variable is used to collect values from a form with

A forms data is received by the php file (specified in the

<form name="f2" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF] ?>">

Basic Regular Expression

in PHP, regexes are strings that

A trailing i at the end of a regex

Special characters: |, (), ^, \

() are for grouping

^ matches the beginning of a line; $

Special characters: |, (), ^, \

+ means 1 or more occurrences

{min,max} means between min and

min or max may be omitted to

inside [], many of the modifier keys act as

What regular expression matches DNA

Filter_var() function is used to check whether a variable is a correct email

The function count() is used to count

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