[nycphp-talk] Managing form data with PHP
tedd
tedd at sperling.com
Wed Dec 12 09:56:11 EST 2007
At 9:34 AM -0500 12/12/07, David Krings wrote:
>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
Ok, but wasn't the OP asking for a date thing? I must of missed the
"user name" part.
Cheers,
tedd
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