Re: Poll of sorts: Javascript Form validation or PHP
| From: | Wolf | Date: | Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:12:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Poll of sorts: Javascript Form validation or PHP | ||
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---- Terion Miller <webdev.terion@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a huge form to validate and wonder which is better javascript
> validation or php, the page is a php page, I actually put js validation on
> it but then it stopped working (stopped inserting into the db) not sure if
> that had anything to do with it....
> What does everyone prefer?
>
> Terion who is actually finally learning stuff to her surprise!!
Never trust users to give you the data you expect.
Javascript/Ajax is a nicety but even when adding more things it can be broken. Always double-check
and validate everything on the server side.
Wolf