Help with form validation

jackie11 · January 22, 2007

Hi everyone

I have been trying to create some simple form validation but what I have created does not seem to be working, no error messages are dispalying and it just dispalys the page enven if he fields are not entered correctly

any suggestions?

Thanks

Jackie

[code]<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>form_display.php</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="etc/TJConsultants.css">
</head>
<body>

<br>

<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
<div style="text-align: center;"><br>

</div>
<br>
</div>
<div id="centercolumn">
<div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div>

<div style="text-align: center;">
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><font style="color: rgb(21, 27, 84);" size="+3">Employee Details<br>
</font>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><font style="color: rgb(21, 27, 84);" size="+3">
</font>

<?php

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$errors = array();

if (!preg_match('|^[a z]+$|i', $_POST['Surname'])) $errors[] = "Surname can contain only letters!";

if(empty($_POST['Surname'])){echo "username is empty";}

if (!preg_match('|^[a z]+$|i', $_POST['Forename'])) $errors[] = "Forename can contain only letters!";

if (!preg_match('|^[0-9]+$|', $_POST['Office_location'])) $errors[] = "Office Location contain only digits!";

if (!preg_match('|^[0-9]+$|', $_POST['Telephone'])) $errors[] = "Telephone can contain only digits!";

if (!preg_match('|^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$|i', $_POST['Email'])) $errors[] = "You must provide a valid email address!";

if (!preg_match('|^[0-9]+$|', $_POST['DOB'])) $errors[] = "DOB must contain only digits!";

if (count($errors) < 1) {

} else {

$msg = "<p class=\"error\">The following errors have occurred: " . implode('<br />', $errors) . "</p>\n";
}
}

echo isset($msg) ? $msg : '';

?>

<?php $Employee_ID = $_POST['Employee_ID'];
$Surname = $_POST['Surname'];
$Forename = $_POST['Forename'];
$Job_title = $_POST['Job_title'];
$Office_location = $_POST['Office_location'];
$Telephone = $_POST['Telephone'];
$Email = $_POST['Email'];
$Expertise = $_POST['Expertise'];
$Hobbies = $_POST['Hobbies'];
$DOB = $_POST['DOB'];

$target_path = "../page_g/etc/";
$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['Picture']['name']);

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['Picture']['tmp_name'],
$target_path)) {echo "";
} else{
echo "There was an error uploading your picture file, please try again!";
}

?>

<table align="center" cellspacing="15">

<tbody>

<tr>

<td style="text-align: center";>
<img src= "<?php echo $target_path; ?> "picture="" border="0" height="100" width="90"></a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"></td>
</tr>

</tbody>
</table>

<br>

<table style="text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 490px;
height: 495px;" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">

<tbody>

<tr>
<td width="25%" style=" text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Employee ID:</td>
<td width="75%"><?php echo $Employee_ID ?></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Surname:</td>
<td width="75%"><?php echo $Surname ?></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Forename:</td>
<td width="75%"><?php echo $Forename ?></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Job Title:</td>
<td width="75%"><?php echo $Job_title ?></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">DOB:</td>
<td width="75%":=""><?php echo $DOB ?></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Telephone:</td>
<td width="75%":=""><?php echo $Telephone ?></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Email:</td>
<td width="75%"><?php echo $Email ?></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Office Location:</td>
<td width="75%"><?php echo $Office_location ?></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Expertise:</td>
<td width="75%"><?php echo $Expertise ?></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Hobbies:</td>
<td width="75%"><?php echo $Hobbies ?></td>
</tr>

</tbody>
</table>

<BR>

<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">

<br>

<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="index.html"><img style="border: 0px solid ;
width: 94px; height: 46px;" alt="Home" src="etc/Home_button.JPG"></a><br>

<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
</div>

</div>

</div>

<div id="footer">
<p style="text-align: left;"></p>

</div>

</div>

</body>
</html>
[/code]

jwk811 · January 22, 2007

its probably not catching the $_POST['submit'] for some reason.. try something else like if($_POST['username']){ let me know if that works...

jackie11 · January 22, 2007

Hi

Thanks that has worked great, the only thing is, is there any way that if an error is detected then you will be redirected to another page with the results displayed on that page, because at the moment the errors display at the top of the page and the table with blank fields appear below it?

Any suggestions

Regards

Jackie

Psycho · January 22, 2007

I'd suggest using the same page for the error display. Just create an "error" variable and set to true if you find an error during validation. Then create a switch to show the page normally if the error variable is false and to show the error page if the error variable is true. hope that makes sense.

jackie11 · January 22, 2007

Hi

That sounds like exactly what I need but I not sure how to do it, I have tried to look up a way to set this up but can't seem to find one, could anyone point me in te right direction!

Thanks

Jackie

jackie11 · January 22, 2007

Anyone

Psycho · January 23, 2007

Ok, I took a closer look at your code, and you already have all the pieces to do this. you just need top put it all together.

You have an array called $errors. So after the validation lines add a switch to check the length of $errors. If it equals > 0, then display the page as you want it when there are errors. Else, display the page as you want for no errors.

[code]<?php
if (count($errors)>0) {
//Display the erros page
} else {
//display the no error page
}
?>[/code]

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