how would i validate email here?

[xcoderx]

guys now how do i validate the email field and check if date entered is numeric?

 

$email = $_POST['email'];
      if($email =="")
    {
$error['email']='yes';
    }
    $date = $_POST['date'];
      if($date =="")
    {
$error['$date']='yes';
    }
        if(count($error) ==0)
    {

[AbraCadaver]

I doubt that you want numeric because it would need to be all numbers with no separators, but:

 

filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);

//and

is_numeric($date);

[xcoderx]

ah thats true but if users somehow enters alphabets then i must stop them how would i do that? somethin in the input field?.

[AbraCadaver]

ah thats true but if users somehow enters alphabets then i must stop them how would i do that? somethin in the input field?.

 

It depends.  You should really force a specific date format.  You could use a javascript date picker or maybe use 3 fields (month, day, year) and check that they are valid.

[xcoderx]

solved thanks :-) javascript the solution.