RE: [PHP] Re: Checking for empty values sent from a form[Scanned]

From: Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:40:45 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: Checking for empty values sent from a form[Scanned]
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Have you tried echoing out the $query just to ensure that all the expected values are being passed to this? If the old_email field is blank I think it will carry out the update but no rows will be affected. Michael -----Original Message----- From: Leendert [mailto:goat@daholygoat.com] Sent: 06 March 2003 14:24 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Checking for empty values sent from a form[Scanned] You usually don't want spaces either foreach($_POST as $val) { if(strlen(trim($val)) < 1) // do what you want } "Rick Emery" <remery@emeryloftus.com> wrote in message news:003f01c2e3e8$033ef290$0500a8c0@honeybee... > foreach($HTTP_POST_VARS as $val) > if($val=="") > { > do something > } > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "shaun" <shaun@mania.plus.com> > To: <> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:45 AM > 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 > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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