| Re: Simpler way to validate form fields? [message #179811 is a reply to message #179810] |
Fri, 07 December 2012 10:56   |
M. Strobel
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Am 07.12.2012 11:15, schrieb Gilles:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:55:21 +0100, "M. Strobel"
> <sorry_no_mail_here(at)nowhere(dot)dee> wrote:
>> The date verification problems are a all time favorite in programming.
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>> But to the regular expression: they just pick the pattern where they find it, so this
>> is always a tolerant and save input reading. You might as well leave off the ^ and $
>> delimiters.
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> It's better to keep ^.../ so that it doesn't allow garbage like
> "qdfqdflqk 11/11/2000 qsdjflqksdfjql".
Your decision. I think error tolerant is more user friendly. And you can be sure,
that a regular expression is the best possible input filter, no need for filter_var()
in this case.
/Str.
P.S. I am waiting for someone to point out that only the best possible regexp is the
best possible input filter.
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