Server Side Form Validation using Regular Expressions
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Server Side Form Validation using Regular Expressions

Some days back I had posted " Perfect Javascript Form Validation using RegularExpressions ", one of the reader commented like this "If I disable Javascript?". So in this post I given a simple example about "Server Side Form Validation using Regular Expressions ". Take a look at live demo.

Server Side Form Validation using Regular Expressions

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validation.php
Contains PHP code. eregi — Case insensitive regular expression match.
<?php
if($_POST)
{
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$gender = $_POST['gender'];
// Full Name
if (eregi('^[A-Za-z0-9 ]{3,20}$',$name))
{
$valid_name=$name;
}
else
{
$error_name='Enter valid Name.';
}

// Email
if (eregi('^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4})$', $email))
{
$valid_email=$email;
}
else
{
$error_email='Enter valid Email.';
}

// Usename min 2 char max 20 char
if (eregi('^[A-Za-z0-9_]{3,20}$',$username))
{
$valid_username=$username;
}
else
{
$error_username='Enter valid Username min 3 Chars.';
}

// Password min 6 char max 20 char
if (eregi('^[A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*()_]{6,20}$',$password))
{
$valid_password=$password;
}
else
{
$error_password='Enter valid Password min 6 Chars.';
}

// Gender
if ($gender==0)
{
$error_gender='Select Gender';
}
else
{
$valid_gender=$gender;
}

if((strlen($valid_name)>0)&&(strlen($valid_email)>0)
&&(strlen($valid_username)>0)&&(strlen($valid_password)>0) && $valid_gender>0 )
{
mysql_query(" SQL insert statement ");
header("Location: thanks.html");
}
else{ }

}
?>


index.php
Contains HTML code. You have to include validation.php file.
<php include("validation.php"); ?>
<form method="post" action="" name="form">
Full name : <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $valid_name; ?>" />
<?php echo $error_name; ?>
Email : <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $valid_email; ?>" />
<?php echo $error_email; ?>
Username : <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $valid_username; ?>" />
<?php echo $error_username; ?>
Password : <input type="password" name="name" value="<?php echo $valid_password; ?>" />
<?php echo $error_password; ?>
Gender : <select name="gender">
<option value="0">Gender</option>
<option value="1">Male</option>
<option value="2">Female</option>
</select>
<?php echo $error_gender; ?>
</form>

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41 comments:

  1. if((strlen($valid_name)>0)&&(strlen($valid_email)>0)
    &&(strlen($valid_username)>0)&&(strlen($valid_password)>0) && $valid_gender>0 )
    {
    mysql_query(" SQL insert statement ");
    header("Location: thanks.html");
    }
    else{ }

    }

    You don't need else {}

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  2. its cool, @Srinivass all the credits for you man!, hope more interesting topics will come on this blogger!

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  3. Nice article. But u can use preg_match() which is fast.

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  4. yes, use preg_match(). It is not only faster, but ereg will probably not be included as standard in future PHP versions

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  5. Dude you go way out of your way on this.

    put the regexs into an array

    $regs['name'] = "..*"; etc....

    then loop through the array

    foreach( $regs as $k => $v )

    then

    if( ! ereg( $v , $_POST[$k] ) )
    {
    $errors[$k] = "Invalid!";
    }


    use a loop luke!

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  6. Also store the error text in another array of string if you want to display text according to the error...

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  7. It's nice and clean, but I would suggest to add some lines to keep the gender choice in case of validation not passed.
    Thanks for sharing this.

    Panamon Rn+

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  8. I do believe that it would be more appropriate to use filter functions instead.

    Regards,
    Márcio

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  9. with the name you can't use double barrels carl john-joe for eg

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  10. please tell me details with an example
    mysql_query(" SQL insert statement ");

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  11. I do have same concept as this one but this one made it clear... nice job

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  12. i want generalised pattern for writing password..
    like ram@143 or 1@ram43 0r 1ram3@
    the expression should contain @,alphabets and numbers compulsorily..
    can anyone help me???

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  13. sir prao_math()
    use it please !

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  14. kindly use prag_math() please

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  15. There is something I don't understand, where is your submit button to submit the form ? Also, why do you echo the valid variable ?

    Thanks

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  16. This is very nice tutorial..Thnx..

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  17. This is very nice tutorial..Thnx..

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  18. I have done all but i get this:
    Undefined variable: valid_name in C:\wamp\www\pf\server-side.php on line 128 Call Stack #TimeMemoryFunctionLocation 10.0011381872{main}( )..\server-side.php:0 " maxlength="255" tabindex="1" />

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  19. You can enter names as numbers, not sure if that's a good idea

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  20. good job my friends i like it............

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  21. Good job my friend i like it.........

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  22. any one tell me.. when i select a option(drop-down) press submit.. after submit it will show which one i select dropdown that set selected.. how can i do this help any one please......

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  23. it was very helpful.... thank you...

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  24. how about making it post to a file like process.php instead of redirecting to a thankyou.htm page?

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  25. how to validate form with database

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  26. nice & clean for beginner..

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  27. nice work man,keep it up

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  28. HI,
    Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\RegistrationAndLogin\validation.php on line 10

    this is my code



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  29. This is very nice tutorial..Thnx..

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  30. This is very nice tutorial..Thnx..

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  31. i used this code but without return statement its not work for me please give me solutoin
    Thank you.

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  32. This is a very nice article. I love the way of using regular expression for validation. It will help the new comers in PHP.

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