Re: Question, what to do when finding an error whilevalidating data

From: Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 19:48:12 +0000
Subject: Re: Question, what to do when finding an error whilevalidating data
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From: "Mike Zornek" <listguy@mikezornek.com> > There is a column called Address in my email table, Thus I am creating a PHP > object called Email to interact with it. The Address variable of this object > will hold a string like "mikezornek@mikezornek.com". > > In the setAddress method should I check for a valid email address and throw > a warning then? And if so how? > > Or should I simply create a method isValidAddress and do the verification in > my own interface code? Either way I would create a ValidAddress() method. I would use it as an interface, but you could also have the default action of the set() method also check it or have the validation within set() controlled by some flag. ---John Holmes...

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