"boclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| I have a problem with a user input in a form required to be an
| integer, creating a variable for a mysql query.
|
| I have instances where integer, 0, is being typed as letter,o.
|
| The last discussion of validating the input was
| http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-db&m=97207172003983&w=2
|
| There it was suggested that the only way to validate the input was
| using javascript. I have a case where clients have disabled
| javascript.
For those who may be interested here is the server side method using
eregi() as explained by Matt Williams
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----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: boclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:05 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Forms : Validating user input is integer
> try elseif(!eregi("[0-9]",$num))
To gain the full benefit of your suggestion I find that I can validate
for a wrong entry containing a mix alphabetical and numerical
characters by altering the elseif line to read
elseif (!eregi("[0-9]",$num) || eregi("[a-z]",$num))
This gives the full script as
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<?
if ((@!$submit) || empty($num) )
{
echo "<div align='center'><span class='note'>No entry was
made</span></div>";
include "get_id.php";
}
elseif(!eregi("[0-9]",$num) || eregi("[a-z]",$num))
{
echo "<div align='center'><span class='note'>Entry error. The
ID should have been a number.</span></div>";
include "get_id.php";
}
else
{
include "do_form.php";
}
?>
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Agreed?
Tim
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