Re: Form validation: client- or server-side?

Thanks for the great input guys. Sounds like I'm using a sound method now with full server-side validation. Perhaps to make the most user- and server-friendly forms, one could use JavaScript as a guide to the user, alerting them to erroneous input and suggesting alternatives rather than being relied upon for more serious validation. -- Matt Grimm "Matt Grimm" <mgrimm@healthtvchannel.org> wrote in message news:20040109180529.50511.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Is there a distinct advantage to doing form validation / error checking on > the server side using PHP? That's how I've always done it because I know > PHP better than JavaScript, but wouldn't it make sense to validate as much > of your form as possible using JavaScript before the form was ever posted? > I'm just talking about the basics, like empty required fields, illegal > characters, string lengths, etc. > > What are your preferred methods? I do an awful lot of content management > with HTML forms, so it's not an entirely spurious question. > > -- > Matt Grimm > Web Developer > The Health TV Channel, Inc. > (a non - profit organization) > 3820 Lake Otis Parkway > Anchorage, AK 99508 > 907.770.6200 ext. 686 > 907.336.6205 (fax) > E-mail: mgrimm@healthtvchannel.org > Web: www.healthtvchannel.org