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Complete HTML Form Validation in PHP

In this post, you will learn about HTML form validation using the PHP programming language.

It is important to validate the form data submitted by users because it may contain some malicious values that can harm your software. Form validation also helps the user to provide input in the correct format. HTML has several types of input fields, the same validation code cannot be applied to all. So, here you will learn how to validate different types of HTML input fields one by one using PHP.

Complete HTML Form Validation in PHP



PHP Checking if form has been submitted

First of all, we should check whether the submit button has been clicked by the user or not. We can check this by submitting the button value. If it is empty, then it returns an error message. It is good practice to write other validation codes within this check.

<?php
if(!$_POST['submit']){
 print 'Please submit the form.';
}
?>
<form action="">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>


PHP form required field validation

We can check all the required fields validation using PHP strlen() or isset() methods. The strlen() method checks the length of a given string, if it is null, then the required field is empty, and the isset() method checks whether or not the variable has set some value. If it returns NULL, it means the required field is empty.

if (!strlen($_POST['name'])) {
 print 'Please enter your name.';
}

OR

if(!(isset($_POST['name']))) {
 print 'Please enter your name.';
}




PHP form validation number fields

PHP provides the ctype_digit() method to check if each and every character of text is numeric or not. It returns a boolean value. It returns TRUE if all characters of the string are numeric, otherwise it returns FALSE.

if(!ctype_digit($_POST['age'])) {
    print 'Please enter your age in number.';
}


PHP validate email

To validate the email address, it is easiest to use the PHP 'filter_var()' function. It has a predefined range for types of filters that filter the variable with a specified filter. For example,FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL is used to validate the email address.

$email = $_POST['email'];
if(!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
  echo 'Please enter valid email address'; 
}


PHP radio button validation Code

The radio button can have multiple choices. Here, we have validated the radio button input by storing all the options in array first, and then we have used the array_key_exists() method for input validation. It checks whether the selected radio button value is present inside the array or not.


$choices = array('red' => 'Red Balloons',
                 'yellow' => 'Yellow Wall',
                 'green' => 'Green Leaves');
foreach($choices as $key => $choice) {
   echo " $choice \n";
}


//  validating the radio button submission
if(!array_key_exists($_POST['color'], $choices)) {
    echo "Please select a valid color.";
}




HTML Checkbox validation

To validate the checkbox, we have used the PHP isset() method and the equals to (==) operator.


echo "<input type='checkbox' name='conditions' value='yes'/> Accept terms and conditions";

//  validating the checkbox
if(isset($_POST['conditions'])) {
    if($_POST['conditions'] == 'yes') {
        print 'Conditions accepted';
    } else {
        $subscribed = false;
        print 'Invalid checkbox value submitted.';
    }
} else {
    // No value was submitted
   print 'Please accept the terms and conditions.';
}


PHP url validation

To check a valid URL address, in the below code we have used the PHP 'filter_var()' method. It has a predefined 'FILTER_VALIDATE_URL' option to check whether the URL is in a valid format or not.

$url = $_POST['url'];

if(!filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) {
    echo 'Please enter valid URL address.';
}




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