[PHP] Re: Form validation: client- or server-side?

2004-01-09 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, On 01/09/2004 04:07 PM, Matt Grimm wrote: Is there a distinct advantage to doing form validation / error checking on the server side using PHP? That's how I've always done it because I know PHP better than JavaScript, but wouldn't it make sense to validate as much of your form as possible

[PHP] Re: Form validation: client- or server-side?

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Grimm
Thanks for the great input guys. Sounds like I'm using a sound method now with full server-side validation. Perhaps to make the most user- and server-friendly forms, one could use JavaScript as a guide to the user, alerting them to erroneous input and suggesting alternatives rather than being