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[nycphp-talk] Managing form data with PHP

David Krings ramons at gmx.net
Wed Dec 12 09:34:11 EST 2007


tedd wrote:
> At 12:16 PM -0600 12/11/07, Tony Furnivall wrote:
>> Newbie request -
>> Any pointers? ideas? suggestions?
> 
> 
> Yes, use javascript and inform the user in real-time and before they 
> send the junk to the server. Of course, you then have to scrub and clean 
> everything, but you would have to anyway.
> 

That works OK for something like a date or making sure that a mandatory entry 
exists, but for example for a user name that has to be unique you need to 
check it against your tables. Can't do that with ECMAScript.

David



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