form validation issue-contact

laxi · July 13, 2014



Hi all,


I am trying to validate my contact page for phone # and country.


I am not able to show warnings for country and phone#. Not sure what needs to be done.


Please help.


The code is as below





<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

  <meta charset="UTF-8">


<title>Contact Us</title>

<style>

.error {color: #FF0000;}

</style>

</head>

<body> 


<?php

// define variables and set to empty values

$nameErr = $emailErr = $genderErr = $websiteErr = $countryErr = $phonenoErr = "";

$name = $email = $gender = $comment = $website = $country = $phoneno = "";


if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {

   if (empty($_POST["name"])) {

     $nameErr = "Name is required";

   } else {

     $name = test_input($_POST["name"]);

     // check if name only contains letters and whitespace

     if (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/",$name)) {

       $nameErr = "Only letters and white space allowed"; 

     }

   }


   if (empty($_POST["email"])) {

     $emailErr = "Email is required";

   } else {

     $email = test_input($_POST["email"]);

     // check if e-mail address syntax is valid

     if (!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\@[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/",$email)) {

       $emailErr = "Invalid email format"; 

     }

   }


   if (empty($_POST["website"])) {

     $website = "";

   } else {

     $website = test_input($_POST["website"]);

     // check if URL address syntax is valid (this regular expression also allows dashes in the URL)

     if (!preg_match("/\b(??:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]/i",$website)) {

       $websiteErr = "Invalid URL"; 

     }

   }


   if (empty($_POST["comment"])) {

     $comment = "";

   } else {

     $comment = test_input($_POST["comment"]);

   }


   if (empty($_POST["gender"])) {

     $genderErr = "Gender is required";

   } else {

     $gender = test_input($_POST["gender"]);

   }

    {

   if (empty($_POST["country"])) {

     $nameErr = "Please select your country";

   } else {

     $name = test_input($_POST["country"]);

   }}

}


function test_input($data) {

   $data = trim($data);

   $data = stripslashes($data);

   $data = htmlspecialchars($data);

   return $data;

}

?>


<h2>Contact Us</h2>


<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);?>"> 

   Name: <input type="text" name="name">

   <span class="error">* <?php echo $nameErr;?></span>

   <br><br>

   E-mail: <input type="text" name="email">

   <span class="error">* <?php echo $emailErr;?></span>

   <br><br>

   <!--Website: <input type="text" name="website">-->

   <span class="error"><?php echo $websiteErr;?></span>

   <br><br>   Gender:

   <input type="radio" name="gender" value="female">Female

   <input type="radio" name="gender" value="male">Male

   <span class="error">* <?php echo $genderErr;?></span>

   <br><br>




            <label for="country">Country:</label>

            <select name="country">

<option value='Choose your country' selected='selected'></option>            

<option value="AF">Afghanistan</option>

<option value="AX">Ã…Land Islands</option>

<option value="AL">Albania</option>

<option value="DZ">Algeria</option>

<option value="AS">American Samoa</option>

<option value="AD">Andorra</option>

<option value="AO">Angola</option>

<option value="AI">Anguilla</option>

<option value="AQ">Antarctica</option>

<option value="AG">Antigua And Barbuda</option>

<option value="AR">Argentina</option>

<option value="AM">Armenia</option>

<option value="AW">Aruba</option>

<option value="AU">Australia</option>

<option value="AT">Austria</option>

<option value="AZ">Azerbaijan</option>

<option value="BS">Bahamas</option>

<option value="BH">Bahrain</option>

<option value="BD">Bangladesh</option>

<option value="BB">Barbados</option>

<option value="BY">Belarus</option>

<option value="BE">Belgium</option>

<option value="BZ">Belize</option>

<option value="BJ">Benin</option>

<option value="BM">Bermuda</option>

<option value="BT">Bhutan</option>

<option value="BO">Bolivia</option>

<option value="BA">Bosnia And Herzegovina</option>

<option value="BW">Botswana</option>

<option value="BV">Bouvet Island</option>

<option value="BR">Brazil</option>

<option value="IO">British Indian Ocean Territory</option>

<option value="BN">Brunei Darussalam</option>

<option value="BG">Bulgaria</option>

<option value="BF">Burkina Faso</option>

<option value="BI">Burundi</option>

<option value="KH">Cambodia</option>

<option value="CM">Cameroon</option>

<option value="CA">Canada</option>

<option value="CV">Cape Verde</option>

<option value="KY">Cayman Islands</option>

<option value="CF">Central African Republic</option>

<option value="TD">Chad</option>

<option value="CL">Chile</option>

<option value="CN">China</option>

<option value="CX">Christmas Island</option>

<option value="CC">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</option>

<option value="CO">Colombia</option>

<option value="KM">Comoros</option>

<option value="CG">Congo</option>

<option value="CD">Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The</option>

<option value="CK">Cook Islands</option>

<option value="CR">Costa Rica</option>

<option value="CI">Cote D'Ivoire</option>

<option value="HR">Croatia</option>

<option value="CU">Cuba</option>

<option value="CY">Cyprus</option>

<option value="CZ">Czech Republic</option>

<option value="DK">Denmark</option>

<option value="DJ">Djibouti</option>

<option value="DM">Dominica</option>

<option value="DO">Dominican Republic</option>

<option value="EC">Ecuador</option>

<option value="EG">Egypt</option>

<option value="SV">El Salvador</option>

<option value="GQ">Equatorial Guinea</option>

<option value="ER">Eritrea</option>

<option value="EE">Estonia</option>

<option value="ET">Ethiopia</option>

<option value="FK">Falkland Islands (Malvinas)</option>

<option value="FO">Faroe Islands</option>

<option value="FJ">Fiji</option>

<option value="FI">Finland</option>

<option value="FR">France</option>

<option value="GF">French Guiana</option>

<option value="PF">French Polynesia</option>

<option value="TF">French Southern Territories</option>

<option value="GA">Gabon</option>

<option value="GM">Gambia</option>

<option value="GE">Georgia</option>

<option value="DE">Germany</option>

<option value="GH">Ghana</option>

<option value="GI">Gibraltar</option>

<option value="GR">Greece</option>

<option value="GL">Greenland</option>

<option value="GD">Grenada</option>

<option value="GP">Guadeloupe</option>

<option value="GU">Guam</option>

<option value="GT">Guatemala</option>

<option value="Gg">Guernsey</option>

<option value="GN">Guinea</option>

<option value="GW">Guinea-Bissau</option>

<option value="GY">Guyana</option>

<option value="HT">Haiti</option>

<option value="HM">Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands</option>

<option value="VA">Holy See (Vatican City State)</option>

<option value="HN">Honduras</option>

<option value="HK">Hong Kong</option>

<option value="HU">Hungary</option>

<option value="IS">Iceland</option>

<option value="IN">India</option>

<option value="ID">Indonesia</option>

<option value="IR">Iran, Islamic Republic Of</option>

<option value="IQ">Iraq</option>

<option value="IE">Ireland</option>

<option value="IM">Isle Of Man</option>

<option value="IL">Israel</option>

<option value="IT">Italy</option>

<option value="JM">Jamaica</option>

<option value="JP">Japan</option>

<option value="JE">Jersey</option>

<option value="JO">Jordan</option>

<option value="KZ">Kazakhstan</option>

<option value="KE">Kenya</option>

<option value="KI">Kiribati</option>

<option value="KP">Korea, Democratic People'S Republic Of</option>

<option value="KR">Korea, Republic Of</option>

<option value="KW">Kuwait</option>

<option value="KG">Kyrgyzstan</option>

<option value="LA">Lao People'S Democratic Republic</option>

<option value="LV">Latvia</option>

<option value="LB">Lebanon</option>

<option value="LS">Lesotho</option>

<option value="LR">Liberia</option>

<option value="LY">Libyan Arab Jamahiriya</option>

<option value="LI">Liechtenstein</option>

<option value="LT">Lithuania</option>

<option value="LU">Luxembourg</option>

<option value="MO">Macao</option>

<option value="MK">Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of</option>

<option value="MG">Madagascar</option>

<option value="MW">Malawi</option>

<option value="MY">Malaysia</option>

<option value="MV">Maldives</option>

<option value="ML">Mali</option>

<option value="MT">Malta</option>

<option value="MH">Marshall Islands</option>

<option value="MQ">Martinique</option>

<option value="MR">Mauritania</option>

<option value="MU">Mauritius</option>

<option value="YT">Mayotte</option>

<option value="MX">Mexico</option>

<option value="FM">Micronesia, Federated States Of</option>

<option value="MD">Moldova, Republic Of</option>

<option value="MC">Monaco</option>

<option value="MN">Mongolia</option>

<option value="MS">Montserrat</option>

<option value="MA">Morocco</option>

<option value="MZ">Mozambique</option>

<option value="MM">Myanmar</option>

<option value="NA">Namibia</option>

<option value="NR">Nauru</option>

<option value="NP">Nepal</option>

<option value="NL">Netherlands</option>

<option value="AN">Netherlands Antilles</option>

<option value="NC">New Caledonia</option>

<option value="NZ">New Zealand</option>

<option value="NI">Nicaragua</option>

<option value="NE">Niger</option>

<option value="NG">Nigeria</option>

<option value="NU">Niue</option>

<option value="NF">Norfolk Island</option>

<option value="MP">Northern Mariana Islands</option>

<option value="NO">Norway</option>

<option value="OM">Oman</option>

<option value="PK">Pakistan</option>

<option value="PW">Palau</option>

<option value="PS">Palestinian Territory, Occupied</option>

<option value="PA">Panama</option>

<option value="PG">Papua New Guinea</option>

<option value="PY">Paraguay</option>

<option value="PE">Peru</option>

<option value="PH">Philippines</option>

<option value="PN">Pitcairn</option>

<option value="PL">Poland</option>

<option value="PT">Portugal</option>

<option value="PR">Puerto Rico</option>

<option value="QA">Qatar</option>

<option value="RE">Reunion</option>

<option value="RO">Romania</option>

<option value="RU">Russian Federation</option>

<option value="RW">Rwanda</option>

<option value="SH">Saint Helena</option>

<option value="KN">Saint Kitts And Nevis</option>

<option value="LC">Saint Lucia</option>

<option value="PM">Saint Pierre And Miquelon</option>

<option value="VC">Saint Vincent And The Grenadines</option>

<option value="WS">Samoa</option>

<option value="SM">San Marino</option>

<option value="ST">Sao Tome And Principe</option>

<option value="SA">Saudi Arabia</option>

<option value="SN">Senegal</option>

<option value="CS">Serbia And Montenegro</option>

<option value="SC">Seychelles</option>

<option value="SL">Sierra Leone</option>

<option value="SG">Singapore</option>

<option value="SK">Slovakia</option>

<option value="SI">Slovenia</option>

<option value="SB">Solomon Islands</option>

<option value="SO">Somalia</option>

<option value="ZA">South Africa</option>

<option value="GS">South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands</option>

<option value="ES">Spain</option>

<option value="LK">Sri Lanka</option>

<option value="SD">Sudan</option>

<option value="SR">Suriname</option>

<option value="SJ">Svalbard And Jan Mayen</option>

<option value="SZ">Swaziland</option>

<option value="SE">Sweden</option>

<option value="CH">Switzerland</option>

<option value="SY">Syrian Arab Republic</option>

<option value="TW">Taiwan, Province Of China</option>

<option value="TJ">Tajikistan</option>

<option value="TZ">Tanzania, United Republic Of</option>

<option value="TH">Thailand</option>

<option value="TL">Timor-Leste</option>

<option value="TG">Togo</option>

<option value="TK">Tokelau</option>

<option value="TO">Tonga</option>

<option value="TT">Trinidad And Tobago</option>

<option value="TN">Tunisia</option>

<option value="TR">Turkey</option>

<option value="TM">Turkmenistan</option>

<option value="TC">Turks And Caicos Islands</option>

<option value="TV">Tuvalu</option>

<option value="UG">Uganda</option>

<option value="UA">Ukraine</option>

<option value="AE">United Arab Emirates</option>

<option value="GB">United Kingdom</option>

<option value="US">United States</option>

<option value="UM">United States Minor Outlying Islands</option>

<option value="UY">Uruguay</option>

<option value="UZ">Uzbekistan</option>

<option value="VU">Vanuatu</option>

<option value="VE">Venezuela</option>

<option value="VN">Viet Nam</option>

<option value="VG">Virgin Islands, British</option>

<option value="VI">Virgin Islands, U.S.</option>

<option value="WF">Wallis And Futuna</option>

<option value="EH">Western Sahara</option>

<option value="YE">Yemen</option>

<option value="ZM">Zambia</option>

<option value="ZW">Zimbabwe</option>

</select>

<span class="error"><?php echo $countryErr; ?></span>

<br><br>


              <label for="phone">Phone Number (With Country Code):</label>

              <input id="phone" name="phone" class="text" />

              <span class="error"><?php echo $phonenoErr;?></span>

          <br><br>

   Comment: <textarea name="comment" rows="5" cols="40"></textarea>

   <br><br>


   <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"> 

</form>

davidannis · July 13, 2014

First thing that I see is that you are assigning the country code to the variable you used for Name and the same variable for both errors. Do the other errors display?

 } else {
$name = test_input($_POST["country"]);

Also, you are using UTF8 to allow accented characters (I assume from the country codes and then not allowing them with the preg match that you use to validate the name.

Still looking

davidannis · July 13, 2014

On line 164 you have a single quote that is unescaped that I think is causing your error. Try this:

<option value="CI">Cote D\'Ivoire</option>

davidannis · July 13, 2014

One last suggestion - when any field gives an error condition set a flag $error_flag=true. Then at the end you can do this:

if (!$error_flag){
//write to database, say thank you, go to next step...
}else{
//redisplay the page with error messages.
}

The way that you have the page set up now you will need to check to see if every fields error message is blank and then remember to add each field to the if when you add new fiedls to the form.

Also, note that with your current code you will get a lot of red *s because they display even if the page has no errors.

Edited July 13, 2014 by davidannis

mac_gyver · July 13, 2014

^^^ if you use an array to hold the error messages, you can use the array itself as the flag davidannis suggested. if the array is empty, there's no errors. if the array is not empty, there was an error.

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