Re: form validation code

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:07, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I've been looking at this to long, and am not seeing the issue. When i > had the below php code set to !empty instead of !isset as it is now I > got the value of the name variable echoed back, yet on sql insert that > field, along with all others are empty, though no error is generated, > just a bogus record is inserted. > When I changed to !isset I'm now getting the die statement echoed as > if no value was passed from the form. This is not the case, I filled > it out completely. > Can anyone tell me where this code went wrong? Sure. > php Code: > // Check if fields are isset > echo "Field Checs.<br />"; > if (!isset($_POST['name'])) { .... the line above. (Hint: isset != empty) (Another hint: with !empty(), you told PHP, "if it's not empty." Now, with !isset(), you're saying, "if it's not set.") (Answer: Remove the exclamation point from !isset().) -- </Daniel P. Brown> UNADVERTISED DEDICATED SERVER SPECIALS SAME-DAY SETUP Just ask me what we're offering today! daniel.brown@parasane.net || danbrown@php.net http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/