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What Form Validation Rules For... - El Forum - 07-26-2012
[eluser]ShoeLace1291[/eluser]
What form validation rules or prepping methods do you use for your large bodies of text? For instance, if someone were to post a comment or forum thread with regular grammar, what would you use to validate that?
What Form Validation Rules For... - El Forum - 07-26-2012
[eluser]thesleepydog[/eluser]
I would think at the bare minimum you would want to make sure to convert any html to non-html form so htmlspecialchars would be one. You probably don't want people posting a books' worth of content so a maxlength is needed. Maybe an XSSfilter. Those would be my primary concerns. But I'm a newb so...don't take it as bible.
What Form Validation Rules For... - El Forum - 07-26-2012
[eluser]john_j[/eluser]
xss_clean,trim, max_length etc
What Form Validation Rules For... - El Forum - 07-26-2012
[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
Create a rule that allows alphanum, spaces, periods, commas, other syntax symbols like exclamation points, carriage returns, etc.
Or, only allow ASCII codes 32 through 127