[PHP] Frustation with data validation

First, thanks to all who offered suggestions with my simple ereg question. I have been unable to get anything to work properly in spite of many good suggestions. The problem I want to solve is to ensure that input fields have either an integer number or are blank before the program proceeds.

Re: [PHP] simple ereg question

John W. Holmes wrote: I'd like to verify input data transferred from a form and make sure it is numeric data or null before my program executes. I am using this syntax, which doesn't work: for ($i=1;$i=3;$i++) { if (ereg('[0-9]+','$_POST[gamt_$i]')) { continue; } else {

Re: [PHP] simple ereg question

Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: At 01:01 24.02.2003, Robert E. Harvey, M.D. said: [snip] if (is_numeric($_POST[gamt_$i]) or empty($_POSTgamt_$i)) or this: if (is_numeric($_POST[gamt_$i]) || empty($_POSTgamt_$i)) I get this error message (my if statement

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[PHP] simple ereg question

Hello folks, I'd like to verify input data transferred from a form and make sure it is numeric data or null before my program executes. I am using this syntax, which doesn't work: for ($i=1;$i=3;$i++) { if (ereg('[0-9]+','$_POST[gamt_$i]')) { continue; } else { die(Non-numeric

[PHP] Simple ereg question

Hello folks, I'd like to verify input data transferred from a form and make sure it is numeric data or null before my program executes. I am using this syntax, which doesn't work: for ($i=1;$i=3;$i++) { if (ereg('[0-9]+','$_POST[gamt_$i]')) { continue; } else {

[PHP] An escape special characters problem

Hi folks, I am trying to transfer data from a select list and am having problems with special characters stopping the transfer. The data is presented in a form as follows: $query = SELECT algen FROM allist WHERE altyp = 'W' ORDER BY algen; $result_1 = mysql_query($query) or die

Re: [PHP] An escape special characters problem

Jason Sheets wrote: You're problem is that you are enclosing your value for your option tags with single quotes ('), when you fetch the value from the database the single quote in 's ends the value='' assignment in your HTML. You can use echo option value=\$algen\$algen; which will solve your

[PHP] grief with printf(), padding and alignment of text

I'm running PHP 4.2.2 and I'm having trouble with the printf() function. I want to be able to print data in space padded fields with the alpha strings left justified and the numeric strings right justified. For some reason I can't get printf() to pad with spaces. It pads with -s and right