RE: [PHP] Question: Validation on select boxes and lists.

2004-10-22 Thread Stuart Felenstein
I just remembered something (smacks myself in the head) In both my multi select and select menus I use dynamic options (meaning the options available come from a table. So: Table for states would look like this: +--+---+ | StateID | State [Label|

Re: [PHP] Question: Validation on select boxes and lists.

2004-10-22 Thread M. Sokolewicz
Stuart Felenstein wrote: I just remembered something (smacks myself in the head) In both my multi select and select menus I use dynamic options (meaning the options available come from a table. So: Table for states would look like this: +--+---+ | StateID | State [Label

[PHP] Question: Validation on select boxes and lists.

2004-10-21 Thread Stuart Felenstein
Hope this is not off topic, and it might be a dumb question, but I'm new. For drop down menus, list boxes, selects etc, would validation be needed to check the string , say for special characters ? (as a security precaution) Thank Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

RE: [PHP] Question: Validation on select boxes and lists.

2004-10-21 Thread Graham Cossey
[snip] Hope this is not off topic, and it might be a dumb question, but I'm new. For drop down menus, list boxes, selects etc, would validation be needed to check the string , say for special characters ? (as a security precaution) I have read several posts/articles on this matter and

RE: [PHP] Question: Validation on select boxes and lists.

2004-10-21 Thread Stuart Felenstein
Graham, Thank you. Actually , you suggested this site to me the other day and it's great! I have read through a number of documents and have a few more to get through. How would a hacker pass an HTTP message ? That is interesting. Stuart --- Graham Cossey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip]

RE: [PHP] Question: Validation on select boxes and lists.

2004-10-21 Thread Graham Cossey
Cossey; Stuart Felenstein Subject: RE: [PHP] Question: Validation on select boxes and lists. you have to remember that the user isn't really filling in a form on your site, rather they are retrieving a page from your site, storing it on their machine (most times temporarily in their browser