I believe he was asking how to actually verify them, but I could be wrong...

There are two ways to do it that are quick and painless.  One involves
matching with a regular expression (and since my regular expression
knowledge is no longer up to snuff I won't even attempt to explain it in
depth).  The other is with the String functions.  There are about 900 ways
to do it with string functions.  Here is a for-instance:

To verify that there is a @ in an email address:

$test = strpos($email, "@");    // Test >= 0 if true, FALSE if false


You can also tokenize the string using the strtok() function and then
compare both the user ID and the domain/host information to your desired
conditions.

All in all. the best way is with a regular expression.  However, you'll need
to get help from someone else on that as I've forgotten most of the stuff
about regex's.  Spent too much time progrmaming other things :)

Mike Frazer



"Richard Hollis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> form passes to your php file
>
> your php file checks the variables with the same name of that of the form
> fields.
>
> you can then test htey have all been set accordingly
>
> e.g.
>
> $FieldName etc.
>
>
> "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I am new to php and I have been using a book to learn a bit about it and
> > well I could not find a chapter on how to use php to verify a form is
> filled
> > out properly, for instance I have a form with 3 fields... name, email
and
> > words. once the user clicks the submit button i want it to verify those
3
> > fields before running the php script to pass the info to a database. I
> have
> > used java-script for this function in the past but would like to use
php.
> > Anyone know how i can accomplish this? Thanks in advance, Jason
> >
> >
>
>



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