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[Yogesh Agashe]

Hello David,

Thanks for the welcome.

Yes, I am checking that they are not empty. Thanks for the feedback.

Sincerely,
Yogesh

David Krings wrote:
> Yogesh Agashe wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is my first post to this NYPHP mailing list. So hello to 
>> everyone and thanks for the thorough discussions which help a 
>> beginner developer like me.
>
> Welcome, was the same with me, except that I never really left 
> beginner stage.
>
>
>  > Is there any other way to validate first and last names. It will be 
> nice
>> to have have inbuilt function for such commonly used field types. I 
>> will like to know how people tackle these issue.
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> The only thing I would check is that the fields are not empty. The 
> maximum length is set via the maxlength parameter in HTML and 
> everything else qualifies as  a valid name. I don't think you can 
> reasonably script validation to make sure that the first name entered 
> is "Dirk" and not "Dork".
>
> David
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