On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 13:47 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I am creating a web interface for registering entries for the annual Jr.
> High Music Festival at my college. I am currently in the process of
> writing a page that will validate school registration information. I
> have created a school registration page with forms and I am sending the
> data collected to a script called validate.php. validate.php (much as
> the name suggests) checks the information submitted for validity and if
> it finds it so, will send it somewhere else for entry into a database.
> The problem is this: I want to use pattern matching to make sure there
> are no undesirable characters in the phone number fields. To facilitate
> this, I have set up three text boxes; one for area code, one for prefix,
> and one for the last four digits (I can't remember what that's called
> ATM.) When validate.php is called, each of these values (as well as a
> few others) are incorporated as variables into the script. The problem
> is that my pattern matching bit doesn't work. I inserted a 'b' at the
> end of the area code; validate.php was supposed to spit out an error,
> but it didn't. Here's the script:
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <?
> $schoolname = $_POST['schoolname'];
> $directorname = $_POST['directorname'];
>
> $parea = $_POST['parea'];
> $pprefix = $_POST['pprefix'];
> $prest = $_POST['prest'];
>
> $farea = $_POST['farea'];
> $fprefix = $_POST['fprefix'];
> $frest = $_POST['frest'];
> $emailaddress = $_POST['emailaddress'];
>
> if (preg_match("/D/", $parea, $array))
> print "Error found in phone number area code information. Possible
> typo?<br>\n";
> if (preg_match("/D/", $pprefix, $array))
> print "Error found in phone number prefix information. Possible
> typo?<br>\n";
> if (preg_match("/D/", $prest, $array))
> print "Error found in the last four digits of phone number
> information. Possible typo?<br>\n";
>
> if (preg_match("/D/", $farea, $array))
> print "Error found in fax number area code information. Possible
> typo?<br>\n";
>
> if (preg_match("/D/", $fprefix, $array))
> print "Error found in fax number prefix information. Possible
> typo?<br>\n";
>
> if (preg_match("/D/", $frest, $array))
> print "Error found in the last four digits of fax number area code
> information. Possible typo?<br>\n";
>
> ?>
>
> <head>
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="standard.css" type="text/css">
> <title>2006 NEO Jr. High Music Festival - Validation</title>
> </head>
>
> <?
> print "School Name: $schoolname<br>\n";
> print "Director's Name: $directorname<br>\n";
> print "Phone Number: $parea-$pprefix-$prest<br>\n";
> print "Fax Number: $farea-$fprefix-$frest<br>\n";
> print "Director's Email: $emailaddress<br><br><br>\n";
> include("registerschool.php");
> ?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Can anyone help me with this?
Nevermind. It was a stupid error on my part. I forget to escape my
pattern...
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