Re: Re: Checking for empty values sent from a form

You can write a function and when using it in a script insert $HTTP_POST_VARS as the argument: function filled_out($form_vars) { foreach ($form_vars as $key => $value) { if (!isset($key) || ($value == "")) { return false; } } return true; } (I think this is from the Welling and Thomson book -- PHP and MySQL Web Development.) -- Lowell Allen > From: "shaun" <shaun@mania.plus.com> > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:45:52 -0000 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Re: Checking for empty values sent from a form > > thanks for your reply but I was wondering if there was a way to check > through all of the form entries with an easier way that > > if ($_POST['your_input_name'] == '' || $_POST['your_input_name'] > == '' || > $_POST['your_input_name'] == '' || $_POST['your_input_name'] == > '' ) //etc > // field is empty > > this would be particularly useful for forms with lots of fields... > > > "Niels Andersen" <haj@zhat.dk> wrote in message > news:20030306133359.36901.qmail@pb1.pair.com... >> Since input from a form are strings, you can check like this: >> >> if ($_POST['your_input_name'] == '') >> // field is empty >> >> "Shaun" <shaun@mania.plus.com> wrote in message >> news:20030306132422.30025.qmail@pb1.pair.com... >>> Is there an easy way to scan through an array of values sent from a form >> to >>> see if any of them are empty? >>> >>> >> >> > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >