* Thus wrote Chris W. Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hey people.
>
>
> function validateFormData($input)
> {
> foreach($input as $field)
> {
> switch ($field['type'])
> {
> case 'name':
> // do the magic
> break;
> case 'phonenumber':
> // do the magic
> break;
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> The validateFormData() function will return false if there are no errors
> to report.
I usually return an empty array.
>
> For a form that has a lot of fields to validate I think this can make
> things pretty easy.
>
>
> So... what do you think?
I do this very exact thing in a lot of my code. The validation
function's are usually related to the object I'm validating.
function customer_info_validate($customer);
Then you can take it a step further and make some generic common
validation's like email, phone numbers, etc and your magic code
would just call those.
Then make a generic function that accepts a value and a regex
pattern to validate against the value. So now your switch would be
something like:
case 'name':
validate_regex($field['value'], '/^[a-z ]{5,50}$/i');
break;
case 'us_phone':
validate_us_phone($field['value']);
break;
etc..
Curt
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