Doug

Hi all, I suspect that there may be a sample solution for my problem but after a week of trying various solutions I am still stumped. The code blow validates the two variables. This works if i do not send the details to form.php, so the line: <form name="form" action="" method="POST"> will validate the data and work fine. However if i want to send the details to form.php to send to my email: <form name="form" action="form.php" method="POST">. the validation stops working and I can put anything on the form and it arrives in my email with no validation Why would this be? Both coding below. this is validation code <?php $user = ['name' => '', 'age' => '', 'terms' => '', ]; $errors = ['name' => '', 'age' => '', 'terms' => false, ]; $message = ''; if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') { //if from submitted // validation filters $validation_filters['name']['filter'] = FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP; $validation_filters['name']['options']['regexp'] = '/^[A-z]{2,10}$/'; $validation_filters['age']['filter'] = FILTER_VALIDATE_INT; $validation_filters['age']['options']['min_range'] = 16; $validation_filters['age']['options']['max_range'] = 65; $user = filter_input_array(INPUT_POST, $validation_filters); // validate data //create error messages $errors['name'] = $user['name'] ? '' : 'Name must be 2-10 letters using A-z'; $errors['age'] = $user['age'] ? '' : 'You must be 16-65'; $invalid = implode($errors); if ($invalid) { $message = 'Please correct the following errors: '; } else { $message = 'Thank you, your data is valid'; } //Sanitize Data $user['name'] = filter_var($user['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS); $user['age'] = filter_var($user['age'], FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT); } ?> <?php include 'includes/header.php'; ?> <?= $message ?> <form name="form" action="form.php" method="POST"> Name: <input type="text" name="name" value="<?= $user['name'] ?>"> <span class="error"><?= $errors['name'] ?></span> Age: <input type="text" name="age" value="<?= $user['age'] ?>"> <span class="error"><?= $errors['age'] ?></span><br> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form> . This is form.php <?php $name = $_POST['name']; $age = $_POST['age']; $to = 'myemail.com'; $subject = 'Contact'; $msg = "Name: $name\n" . "Age: $age\n"; mail($to, $subject, $msg, 'from:' . myemail.com); ?> <br /> <?php echo 'Thanks ' . $name . ' We have your info!<br />'; echo "Details: <br />"; echo 'name: ' . $name . '<br />'; echo 'age: ' . $age . '<br />'; ?> <a href="validate-form-using-filters.php" > GO back to form</a> Apologies for all the code but at this point in time I think there must be something other than form action at play here. All help apricated.