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How to screen $_POST data before inserting into database? - El Forum - 06-19-2008
[eluser]Tony W[/eluser]
I am very new to CI and just started coding. I have read the user guide but still don't know how to do screen the POST data before saving to database?
I only know this for mysql insertion:
$this->db->insert('db_table', $_POST);
How do you screen the data such as:
confirm if the passwords (1st entry and confirm) are identical?
add captcha.
etc...
Thanks!
How to screen $_POST data before inserting into database? - El Forum - 06-20-2008
[eluser]Taff[/eluser]
Hey Tony,
check out the validation class.
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/validation.html
That should be what you need. Scroll down to Prepping data where you will see
Quote:$rules['username'] = "trim|required|min_length[5]|max_length[12]|xss_clean";
$rules['password'] = "trim|required|matches[passconf]|md5";
$rules['passconf'] = "trim|required";
$rules['email'] = "trim|required|valid_email";
which will give you a basic idea of how it works.
Taff