PHP - What Is The Entities Roll For Validation?

I'm tearing my hair out trying to work with "simple" XML for the first time. I'm building a small CMS for a Flash based site and the content is held in an XML file. My problem is that many of the copy fields are XML CDATA fields. On the one hand, with:

$xml = simplexml_load_file($file, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);
I can pull the data out of that node and the CDATA tags are stripped. My issues come with trying to save the data with:

file_put_contents($file, $xml->asXML());
Problems a

a) tags are interpreted with their HTML entity equivalents. I don't want this to happen as it's a CDATA field being read by Flash. I gather this is coming from the asXML method because even if I do an html_entity_decode on the $_POST data it's still being converted.

b) because of the above, there's no way to add the CDATA tags because they also have their charachters converted.

SimpleXML so far has been anything but simple for me  Has anyone ever run into this? Is there a way to save the file back in a way that will just keep my data exactly as is and also allow me to add the CDATA tags back in?

So I encode and decode html entities of my thread body variable in my script but now that I am working on the quote function I realize even after decode it prints the html entities instead of the regular character is there anyway to change this because if not it is going to print my font tag as characters instead of the font tag actually doing its job. Thanks! P.S. if this double posts I don't know what's going on...it happened last time but I didn't double post. It may be that I am using a mobile phone.

the above/attached image shows a table outputted using a 'for loop', it has the action column that should either edit or delete entity...
I need help to be able to edit or delete each entity by clicking the action link...

find attached image...

I am using PHP and Doctrine to store and manipulate Highchart objects such as the following:

{
    "chart": {
        "type": "bar"
    },
    "xAxis": {
        "categories": ["Africa", "America", "Asia", "Europe", "Oceania"]
        }
    },
    "series": [{
        "name": "Year 1800",
        "data": [107, 31, 635, 203, 2]
    }, {
        "name": "Year 1900",
        "data": [133, 156, 947, 408, 6]
    }, {
        "name": "Year 2000",
        "data": [814, 841, 3714, 727, 31]
    }, {
        "name": "Year 2016",
        "data": [1216, 1001, 4436, 738, 40]
    }]
}

My DB schema is:

BarChart
-id (PK)
-name (string)

BarChartSerie
-id (PK)
-barChartId (FK)
-name (string)
-position (int)

BarChartCategory
-id (PK)
-barChartId (FK)
-name (string)
-position (int)

BarChartNode
-barChartSerie (FK)
-barChartCategory (FK)
-value (decimal)

The chart entity has a collection of serie and category, and  the serie and category entities both contain a reference to the shared node.

I wish to clone the chart entity and thus use __clone() to set the chart, category, and serie entity's' PK to NULL, however, am running into issues as the node entity still has the original entitiy's PKs.

I think maybe I should be creating the entities differently.

Any suggestions how these objects should be created?  Maybe instead have my series contain a collection of nodes and have each of these nodes contain a reference to the applicable category?

Thanks

I am doing something stupid, and just can't see it and hoping someone has better eyes than mine.  I have two Doctrine entities which extend another class using single class inheritance, but when retrieving the collection of either of the two child classes, I get the collection of the parent (i.e. combination of both child classes).  I've experimented with making the parent abstract and not including it in the discriminator map but no change.  In hopes to identifying my mistake, I created a new Symfony project with just the relevant classes and show all steps below.

Initial install by running the following:

symfony new test
composer update
composer require doctrine/orm
composer require migrations
composer require maker --dev
composer require security

Using "php bin/console make:user", I created three users: AbstractUser, OwnerUser, VendorUser.  I then edited all three entities and the owner and vendor repositories as follows:

<?php

namespace App\Entity;

use App\Repository\AbstractUserRepository;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\UserInterface;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass=AbstractUserRepository::class)
 * @ORM\InheritanceType("SINGLE_TABLE")
 * @ORM\DiscriminatorColumn(name="discr", type="string")
 * @ORM\DiscriminatorMap({"owner" = "OwnerUser", "vendor" = "VendorUser", "abstract" = "AbstractUser"})
 */
class AbstractUser implements UserInterface
{
    // No changes made
}

 

<?php

namespace App\Entity;

use App\Repository\OwnerUserRepository;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass=OwnerUserRepository::class)
 */
class OwnerUser extends AbstractUser
{
}

 

<?php

namespace App\Entity;

use App\Repository\VendorUserRepository;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass=VendorUserRepository::class)
 */
class VendorUser extends AbstractUser
{
}

No change to AbstractUserRepository.

<?php

namespace App\Repository;

class OwnerUserRepository extends AbstractUserRepository
{
}

 

<?php

namespace App\Repository;

class VendorUserRepository extends AbstractUserRepository
{
}

Then I migrated the DB.

php bin/console doctrine:schema:drop --full-database --force
rm migrations/*
php bin/console make:migration
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

Next I created two OwnerUsers and one VendorUser using a command script I wrote shown at the end of this post.

# php bin/console app:tester create OwnerUser roles=[]
# php bin/console app:tester create OwnerUser roles=[]
# php bin/console app:tester create VendorUser roles=[]

Checked the PostSQL database.

facdocs=> \d
                     List of relations
 Schema |            Name             |   Type   |  Owner
--------+-----------------------------+----------+---------
 public | abstract_user               | table    | facdocs
 public | abstract_user_id_seq        | sequence | facdocs
 public | doctrine_migration_versions | table    | facdocs
(3 rows)

facdocs=> select * from abstract_user;
 id |    email    | roles |    password    | discr
----+-------------+-------+----------------+--------
  1 | setEmail158 | []    | setPassword146 | owner
  2 | setEmail87  | []    | setPassword101 | owner
  3 | setEmail62  | []    | setPassword20  | vendor
(3 rows)

facdocs=>

Next, I retrieved the entities using Doctrine along with the beforementioned test script.
 

[michael@devserver test]$ php bin/console app:tester read VendorUser
Test Entity Manager
============

command: read
entity: VendorUser
class: \App\Entity\VendorUser
properties: []
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  object(stdClass)#293 (5) {
    ["__CLASS__"]=>
    string(20) "App\Entity\OwnerUser"
    ["id:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    int(1)
    ["email:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(11) "setEmail158"
    ["roles:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(8) "Array(0)"
    ["password:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(14) "setPassword146"
  }
  [1]=>
  object(stdClass)#294 (5) {
    ["__CLASS__"]=>
    string(20) "App\Entity\OwnerUser"
    ["id:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    int(2)
    ["email:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(10) "setEmail87"
    ["roles:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(8) "Array(0)"
    ["password:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(14) "setPassword101"
  }
  [2]=>
  object(stdClass)#358 (5) {
    ["__CLASS__"]=>
    string(21) "App\Entity\VendorUser"
    ["id:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    int(3)
    ["email:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(10) "setEmail62"
    ["roles:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(8) "Array(0)"
    ["password:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(13) "setPassword20"
  }
}
[michael@devserver test]$
[michael@devserver test]$ php bin/console app:tester read OwnerUser
Test Entity Manager
============

command: read
entity: OwnerUser
class: \App\Entity\OwnerUser
properties: []
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  object(stdClass)#293 (5) {
    ["__CLASS__"]=>
    string(20) "App\Entity\OwnerUser"
    ["id:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    int(1)
    ["email:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(11) "setEmail158"
    ["roles:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(8) "Array(0)"
    ["password:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(14) "setPassword146"
  }
  [1]=>
  object(stdClass)#294 (5) {
    ["__CLASS__"]=>
    string(20) "App\Entity\OwnerUser"
    ["id:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    int(2)
    ["email:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(10) "setEmail87"
    ["roles:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(8) "Array(0)"
    ["password:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(14) "setPassword101"
  }
  [2]=>
  object(stdClass)#358 (5) {
    ["__CLASS__"]=>
    string(21) "App\Entity\VendorUser"
    ["id:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    int(3)
    ["email:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(10) "setEmail62"
    ["roles:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(8) "Array(0)"
    ["password:App\Entity\AbstractUser:private"]=>
    string(13) "setPassword20"
  }
}
[michael@devserver test]$

 

As seen, when requesting a collection of either OwnerUsers or VendorUsers, I am retrieving the combination of both collections.  I am sure it is totally user (i.e. me) error, but just don't see it.  Are you able to see my stupid mistake?  Thanks

My test script is below:
 

<?php

namespace App\Command;

use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;
use Doctrine\Common\Util\Debug;

class Tester extends Command
{
    // the name of the command (the part after "bin/console")
    protected static $defaultName = 'app:tester';
    private $entityManager;
    public function __construct(EntityManagerInterface $entityManager)
    {
        $this->entityManager = $entityManager;
        parent::__construct();
    }

    protected function configure()
    {
        $this
        ->setDescription('Doctrine Object Tester.  --help')
        ->setHelp('This command allows you to query a single entity...')
        ->addArgument('cmd', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'The command name [create, read].')
        ->addArgument('entity', InputArgument::REQUIRED, 'The name of the entity.')
        ->addArgument('properties', InputArgument::IS_ARRAY | InputArgument::OPTIONAL, 'properies (foo=foo bla=[]')
        ;
    }

    private function getProperties($input)
    {
        $properties=[];
        foreach($input as $property) {
            $property=explode('=', $property);
            $name = trim($property[0]);
            $value = trim($property[1]);
            if($value === '[]') {
                $value = [];
            }
            elseif($value === 'null') {
                $value = null;
            }
            elseif(substr($value, 0, 1) === '/') {
                $value = explode('/', substr($value, 1));
                $class = ucfirst(substr($value[0], 0, -1));
                $class = '\App\Entity\\'.$class;
                if(count($value)===1) {
                    $value = $this->entityManager->getRepository($class)->findAll();
                }
                else {
                    $value = $this->entityManager->getRepository($class)->find($value[1]);
                }
            }
            $properties[$name] = $value;
        }
        return $properties;
    }

    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
    {
        $output->writeln([
            'Test Entity Manager',
            '============',
            '',
        ]);

        // retrieve the argument value using getArgument()

        $cmd = $input->getArgument('cmd');
        $output->writeln('command: '.$cmd);
        $entity = $input->getArgument('entity');
        $output->writeln('entity: '.$entity);
        $class = '\App\Entity\\'.$entity;
        $output->writeln('class: '.$class);
        $properties = $this->getProperties($input->getArgument('properties'));

        $output->writeln('properties: '.json_encode($properties));

        switch($cmd) {
            case 'create':
                $entity = new $class;
                foreach(get_class_methods($entity) as $method) {
                    if(substr($method, 0, 3)==='set') {
                        $m = lcfirst(substr($method, 3));
                        $entity->$method(array_key_exists($m, $properties)?$properties[$m]:$method.rand(0,200));
                    }
                }
                $this->entityManager->persist($entity);
                $this->entityManager->flush();
                $output->writeln('entity created');
                break;
            case 'read':
                Debug::dump($this->entityManager->getRepository($class)->findAll());
                break;
            default:
                $output->writeln('INVALID COMMAND: '.$cmd.'.  Only create and read are supported.'); 
        }
        return Command::SUCCESS;
    }
}

 

I am not a very good PHP programmer, and I got a project to "work" on.
I need help writing a Dice Roll Function. This is how I'm supposed to do the two functions:
New Function: dice_roll (int sides)
    - $ returns a random number of how many sided the dice is, between 1 and the $.

New Function: dice_roll_str (string dicestr)
    - A string describing the dice [0-9] + d [0-9 ]+[+-][ 0-9] + size (d <number_of_dices> <number_of_sides> [+-][modifying_value])
    - For example if I call the function with "3d6-3", this means: we throw 3 times with a 6-sided dice, add it up, then subtract 3-t.
    - The function is to return a false value on error
    - Possible errors:
       - Minimum number of of sides of the dice is 2 the maximum is 24
       - A minimum number of dices 1 the maximum is 8
       - The result should always be a positive number, which is not greater than twice of the result we got.

I've already done the first function. This is my code:
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function dice_roll($sides_num) {
    $rand_num = rand(1, $sides_num);
    return $rand_num;
}
I'm not sure it correct.
It is the second function that I don't know how to do. Please, if you can help I'd be really grateful. If you can please put explanations on how the code works. 
Thank you so much,
Evermore

Quotation marks are confusing me.   What do you guys use when it comes to quotation marks?   In HTML attributes and throughout the bodies of my web pages, I use the HTML entity (&quot;). For example:

<a href="" title="Read &quot;Article Name&quot;">

<p>In his new book, he says: &quot;This is a quote.&quot;</p>

I thought that this is the best practice.   However, today, I read that it's perfectly safe to use straight quotes (") in the body, and that I should use the HTML entity only in HTML attributes.   Is that correct?   But what if I want to use curly quotes in the body instead of straight quotes? Should I always use the HTML entities for curly quotes (&ldquo; and &rdquo;), or can I also safely use the characters (“”)?   I heard that straight quotes are safe in all browsers, even if you don't specify the character set of your web pages, but that curly quotes are only safe if you specify the character set or if you use the HTML entities.   Is that true?   And what about the <q> tag? Apparently, it's compatible with all browsers but they treat it differently.
Edited by Fluoresce, 30 August 2014 - 07:37 AM.

Hi Everybody.

I hope someone here can advise the correct method for storing html/text in a MySQL DB AND retrieving it for updating via a <textarea>

Basically, I need to store in my DB knowlege base articles, which have a title, category, product version/edition, description, solution, notes, etc... standard KB fields.. sorta...

The issue I am experiencing, or the trouble I am having, is when I need to store both formatting HTML and output HTML in the solution or notes fields, html special chars are being interpreted and the HTML that should be displayed is not there. The char codes are interpreted and the browser then "hides" the HTML tags.

For example, the solution may be this:

Code: [Select]
Find the following line:

&lt;serverURL&gt;URL&lt;/serverURL&gt;

Change the URL to reflect your current server URL.

The html chars are interpreted and changed to the actual less than and greater than signs rather than their &...; form (ie: &lt; &gt; &nbsp etc.)

Some code snippets if it helps...

Creating a record:

Code: [Select]
...
$sol = addslashes($_POST['asol']);
$notes = addslashes($_POST['anotes']);
include('./conf/connect.php');
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `faq_kb`.`articles` (`id`, `solution`, `notes`, `updated`) VALUES (NULL, '$sol', '$notes', NULL) ") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_close($conn);
...

Retrieving a record:

Code: [Select]
...
include('./connect.php');
$get = $_GET['a'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id='$get'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
mysql_close($conn);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$solution = $row['solution'];
$notes = $row['notes'];
}
...
<h4>Solution:</h4>
<div align="right"><textarea name="rsol" style="width:550px;height:150px;">
<?php echo $solution; ?>
</textarea></div>
<h4>Notes:</h4>
<div align="right"><textarea name="rnotes" style="width:550px;height:150px;">
<?php echo $notes; ?>
</textarea></div>
...

Updating a record:

Code: [Select]
...
$aid = $_POST['id'];
$sol = addslashes($_POST['rsol']);
$notes = addslashes($_POST['rnotes']);
include('./conf/connect.php');
mysql_query("UPDATE `faq_kb`.`articles` SET solution='$sol', notes='$notes' WHERE id='$aid'") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_close($conn);
...

I guess, you can ignore my whole spiel above and simply answer this question:

what function do I need to use to encode the variable for inserting into the database, and what function do I then need to use to decode the variable for output so that it retains it's formatting html and my output/displayed html (&lt; &gt;)???

Thanks guys!

I hope that this makes sense...


------------------------
Further Example:

This is what is output (inside the dashes):
----------------------------
To configure your SysAid Server logging to debug mode please do the following.

Open the file serverConf.xml located in the directory:

    [...\SysAidServer\root\WEB-INF\conf\]

Change
    <sysaidLogLevel>info</sysaidLogLevel>
to
    <sysaidLogLevel>debug</sysaidLogLevel>

Save the change and then restart the SysAid Server service.
--------------------------

And this is what the source of that looks like:
Code: [Select]
<div class="divText" id="txtselect"><p>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" lang="EN-US">
To configure your SysAid Server logging to debug mode please do the following.</span></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Open the
file </span></font>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black; font-style: italic;" lang="EN-US">
serverConf.xml</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" lang="EN-US">
located in the directory:</span></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></font>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" lang="EN-US">
[...\SysAidServer\root\WEB-INF\conf\] </span></p>
<p>

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" lang="EN-US">
Change <br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><font face="Courier New">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US">
&lt;sysaidLogLevel&gt;info&lt;/sysaidLogLevel&gt;<br>
</span></font>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" lang="EN-US">
to<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><font face="Courier New">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US">

&lt;sysaidLogLevel&gt;debug&lt;/sysaidLogLevel&gt;</span></font></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US">Save the change
and then restart the SysAid Server service.</span></p>
</div>

And this is a copy paste straight out of phpMyAdmin:
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<p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black">
To configure your SysAid Server logging to debug mode please do the following.</span></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif">Open the
file </span></font>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black; font-style: italic">
serverConf.xml</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black">
located in the directory:</span></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif">   
</span></font>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black">
[...\SysAidServer\root\WEB-INF\conf\] </span></p>
<p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black">
Change <br>
    </span><font face="Courier New">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black">
&lt;sysaidLogLevel&gt;info&lt;/sysaidLogLevel&gt;<br>
</span></font>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black">
to<br>
    </span><font face="Courier New">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black">
&lt;sysaidLogLevel&gt;debug&lt;/sysaidLogLevel&gt;</span></font></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black">Save the change
and then restart the SysAid Server service.</span></p>

Then EVEN CRAZIER, I click the edit button on the article and this is (direct copy paste) what is output to the <textarea>:
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<p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black">
To configure your SysAid Server logging to debug mode please do the following.</span></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif">Open the
file </span></font>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black; font-style: italic">
serverConf.xml</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black">
located in the directory:</span></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif">   
</span></font>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black">
[...\SysAidServer\root\WEB-INF\conf\] </span></p>
<p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black">
Change <br>
    </span><font face="Courier New">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black">
<sysaidLogLevel>info</sysaidLogLevel><br>
</span></font>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black">
to<br>
    </span><font face="Courier New">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black">
<sysaidLogLevel>debug</sysaidLogLevel></span></font></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black">Save the change
and then restart the SysAid Server service.</span></p>
Notice how there are NO &lt; or &gt; chars in this?

How do I make this work


Thanks guys

I am really new to using php validation, I think I may be on to what I am looking for but not very sure. I am trying to validate my form fields just incase someone forgets (name, subject, message, and email).  Here is what I have so far. I was looking at an example on how to validate a phone number.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Contact</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>


<?php

$first_name=$_POST['name'];
$email_address=$_POST['email'];
$subject=$_POST['subject'];
$message=$_POST['text'];



  if(isset($_GET['submit'])) {
          if(preg_match("/^\(([
                                  $_GET['email']) != ) {
               echo "The email field was invalid<BR>";
          }

  else if(isset($_GET['submit'])) {
          if(preg_match("/^\(([
                                  $_GET['name']) != "") {
               echo "The name field was invalid<BR>";
}
 else if(isset($_GET['submit'])) {
          if(preg_match("/^\(([
                                  $_GET['subject']) != "") {
               echo "The subject field was invalid<BR>";
     } else {
 
mail("myemailaddress@gmail.com","Subject: $subject",
$message, "From: $first_name <$email_address>");

echo "Thank you for using our mail form.<br/>";
echo "Your email has been sent.";

}

?>



</body>
</html>

So Im in the weird place where my age validation is not working, any ideas:

$dob = strtotime($_POST['dob']); //855993600 Feb 15th 1997
$age_req = strtotime('-13 year', $dob); //445680000 Feb 15th 1984
$time = time(); //1292007621

if ($time < $age_req){}

I'm looking for a bit of help introducing some validation into my "contact us" page. I'm looking to make the user have to enter an email address into textbox And something into the Enquiry box.

My 2 files are below:


contact-us.shtml
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Byrne Computing Services</title>
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="inc/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="inc/easySlider.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#slider").easySlider();
});
</script>
</head>

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<!--#include file="inc_header.html" -->
  <!--#include file="inc_scrollingimages.html" -->
  <div id="boxesholder">
    <!--#include file="inc_specials.html" -->
  <div id="main">
    <div id="mainheader">
    Contact Us</div>
  <div id="maincontent2">
    <h2>Fill in the form below and we will contact you shortly.</h2>
    <p><img src="images/binarycode.jpg" alt="Binary Code" width="167" height="600" class="images" /><form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="mailer.php?mail=1">
      <strong>Name: </strong><br />
      <input name="name" type="text" class="formsingle" id="name" />
        <br />
        <br />
        <strong>Email:</strong><br />
        <input name="email" type="text" class="formsingle" id="emailaddress" />
        <br />
        <br />
        <strong>Interested in:</strong><br />
      <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="table">
        <tr>
          <td class="interestedin"><strong>Computer Repair</strong></td>
          <td class="interestedin"><strong>Console Repair</strong></td>
          <td class="interestedin"><strong>Other Services</strong></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="virusandmalwareremoval" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="virusandmalwareremoval" value="virusandmalwareremoval" />
            <label for="virusandmalwareremoval">Virus and Malware Removal</label>
          </td>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="xbox360drivereplacement" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="xbox360drivereplacement" value="xbox360drivereplacement" />
              <label for="ps3drivereplacement">Xbox 360 Drive Replacement</label>
          </td>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="databackup" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="databackup" value="databackup" />
              <label for="databackup">Data Backup</label>
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="fullservice" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="fullservice" value="fullservice" />
              <label for="fullservice">Full Service</label>
          </td>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="xbox360laserreplacement" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="xbox360laserreplacement" value="xbox360laserreplacement" />
              <label for="ps3laserreplacement">Xbox 360 Laser Replacement</label>
          </td>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="websites" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="websites" value="websites" />
              <label for="websites">Web Design</label>
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="quickfix" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="quickfix" value="quickfix" />
              <label for="quickfix">Quick Fix</label>
          </td>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="xbox360rrodrepair" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="xbox360rrodrepair" value="xbox360rrodrepair" />
              <label for="ps3ylodrepair">Xbox 360 RROD Repair</label>
          </td>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="datarecovery" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="datarecovery" value="datarecovery" />
              <label for="datarecovery">Data Recovery</label>
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="upgrades" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="upgrades" value="upgrades" />
            <label for="upgrades">Upgrades</label>
          </td>
          <td class="interestedin"><input name="ps3drivereplacement" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="ps3drivereplacement" value="ps3drivereplacement" />
            <label for="ps3drivereplacement">PS3 Drive Replacement</label></td>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="networkinstallation" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="networkinstallation" value="networkinstallation" />
            <label for="networkinstallation">Network Installation</label>
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>&nbsp;</td>
          <td class="interestedin"><input name="ps3laserreplacement" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="ps3laserreplacement" value="ps3laserreplacement" />
          PS3
            <label for="ps3laserreplacement"> Laser Replacement</label></td>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="mobilephoneissues" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="mobilephoneissues" value="mobilephoneissues" />
            <label for="mobilephoneissues">Mobile Phone Issues</label>
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>&nbsp;</td>
          <td class="interestedin"><input name="ps3ylodrepair" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="ps3ylodrepair" value="ps3ylodrepair" />
            <label for="ps3ylodrepair">PS3 YLOD Repair</label></td>
          <td class="interestedin">
            <input name="emailconfiguration" type="checkbox" class="formcheckbox" id="emailconfiguration" value="emailconfiguration" />
            <label for="emailconfiguration">Email Configuration</label></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      <br />
     
      <strong>Enquiry: </strong><br />
        <textarea name="enquiry" class="formmulti" id="enquiry"></textarea>
        <br />
        <br />
        <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" />
      </form>
      </p>
   
    <p><br />
    </p>
  </div>
  </div>
</div>
  <!--#include file="inc_offers.html" -->
<!--#include file="inc_footer.html" -->
</body>
</html>

Mailer.php
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<?php 
function curPageURL() {
 $pageURL = 'http';
 if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";}
 $pageURL .= "://";
 if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
  $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
 } else {
  $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
 }
 return $pageURL;
}

if (isset($_REQUEST['name'])) {

$name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $enquiry = $_REQUEST['enquiry'] ;
if (isset($_REQUEST['virusandmalwareremoval'])){
$virusandmalwareremoval = $_REQUEST['virusandmalwareremoval'] . "\n";
} else {
$virusandmalwareremoval = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['fullservice'])){
$fullservice = $_REQUEST['fullservice'] . "\n";
} else {
$fullservice = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['quickfix'])){
$quickfix = $_REQUEST['quickfix'] . "\n";
} else {
$quickfix = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['upgrades'])){
$upgrades = $_REQUEST['upgrades'] . "\n";
} else {
$upgrades = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['xbox360drivereplacement'])){
$xbox360drivereplacement = $_REQUEST['xbox360drivereplacement'] . "\n";
} else {
$xbox360drivereplacement = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['xbox360laserreplacement'])){
$xbox360laserreplacement = $_REQUEST['xbox360laserreplacement'] . "\n";
} else {
$xbox360laserreplacement = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['xbox360rrodrepair'])){
$xbox360rrodrepair = $_REQUEST['xbox360rrodrepair'] . "\n";
} else {
$xbox360rrodrepair = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['ps3drivereplacement'])){
$ps3drivereplacement = $_REQUEST['ps3drivereplacement'] . "\n";
} else {
$ps3drivereplacement = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['ps3laserreplacement'])){
$ps3laserreplacement = $_REQUEST['ps3laserreplacement'] . "\n";
} else {
$ps3laserreplacement = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['ps3ylodrepair'])){
$ps3ylodrepair = $_REQUEST['ps3ylodrepair'] . "\n";
} else {
$ps3ylodrepair = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['databackup'])){
$databackup = $_REQUEST['databackup'] . "\n";
} else {
$databackup = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['websites'])){
$websites = $_REQUEST['websites'] . "\n";
} else {
$websites = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['datarecovery'])){
$datarecovery = $_REQUEST['datarecovery'] . "\n";
} else {
$datarecovery = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['networkinstallation'])){
$networkinstallation = $_REQUEST['networkinstallation'] . "\n";
} else {
$networkinstallation = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['mobilephoneissues'])){
$mobilephoneissues = $_REQUEST['mobilephoneissues'] . "\n";
} else {
$mobilephoneissues = "";
}
if (isset($_REQUEST['emailconfiguration'])){
$emailconfiguration = $_REQUEST['emailconfiguration'] . "\n";
} else {
$emailconfiguration = "";
}

if ( ereg( "[\r\n]", $name ) || ereg( "[\r\n]", $email ) ) {

header( "Location: http://www.parkersmedia.com/byrne" );

}
$mailcontent = "Name: ".$name;
$mailcontent.= "\n\nEmail: ".$email;
$mailcontent.= "\n\nInterested in: \n". $virusandmalwareremoval . $fullservice . $quickfix . $upgrades . $xbox360drivereplacement . $xbox360laserreplacement . $xbox360rrodrepair . $ps3drivereplacement . $ps3laserreplacement . $ps3ylodrepair . $databackup . $websites . $datarecovery . $networkinstallation . $mobilephoneissues . $emailconfiguration;
$mailcontent.= "\n\nEnquiry: " . $enquiry;

mail( "info@byrnecomputingservices.ie", "Enquiry from Byrne Computing Services",
    "$mailcontent", "From: $name <$email>" );
}
header( "Location: http://www.parkersmedia.com/byrne/thankyou.shtml" );
?>

Any help on this would be great!

Hello

I have a textbox and a input button which will insert a mysql record, however i need to validate that textbox if its empty it shouldnt allow that button to insert any record but show a popup error.

my script :
 

<script Language="JavaScript">

function Blank_TextField_Validator()
{
// Check the value of the element named text_name
// from the form named text_form
if (frmContact.id.value == "")
{
// If null display and alert box
alert("Please fill in the text field.");
// Place the cursor on the field for revision
frmContact.id.focus();
// return false to stop further processing
return (false);
}
// If text_name is not null continue processing
return (true);
}

</script>

Form :
 

<form name="frmContact" id="frmContact" method="POST" action="index.php" onsubmit="return Blank_TextField_Validator()">

however its not validating or showing any error. any help?
Edited by sam20e, 11 November 2014 - 10:31 AM.

Hi,

Im making a form that contains 3 textboxes.. now i want my textboxes to contain only letters..
i used is_numeric for the validation but when i put' like.. "JUSHIRO1" my code will still accept it.
 can someone help me make a code that will validate my textbox to only accept letters.
and one more.. when the user input in the textbox with a number a popup box will appear.

i am using the following to validate a submission form.

when i take this validation script out, the php script works fine, however when i use it it redirects to index.html as if their was an error....

please can somebody help, ive tried and cannot see the problem?
$fname = $_POST['firstname'];
$lname = $_POST['lastname'];
$add1 = $_POST['add1'];
$add2 = $_POST['add2'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$county = $_POST['county'];
$country = $_POST['country'];
$postcode = $_POST['postcode'];
$email1 = $_POST['email1'];
$email2 = $_POST['email2'];
$mobile = $_POST['mobile'];
$home = $_POST['home'];
$time = $_POST['time'];
$answer = $_POST['answer'];
$job = $_POST['job'];
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

// validation

$validationOK=true;
if (Trim($fname)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($lname)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($add1)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($city)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($county)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($country)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($postcode)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($email1)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($email2)!=="$email1") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($mobile)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($time)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($answer)!=="34") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($job)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (!$validationOK) {

  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=index.html\">";

  exit;

}