How To Allow Only Certain Amount Of Characters In A Web Form PHP HTML


How To Allow Only Certain Amount Of Characters In A Web Form PHP HTML
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How To Allow Only Certain Amount Of Characters In A Web Form PHP HTML
suppose you have a web form, and you want to make sure that the user enters or submits atleast a certain amount of character before the form can be validated, lets say for example you have a contact us form and you want the user's name to have atleast 3 or more character in their name, if it has less, than the form will reject and tell the visitor to try again.

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so the funtion to use in php to limit the least amount of character a user can enter is the strlen() function.

ok, to follow the contact us form example for the user's name, so once the user submits their name, i would use something like this to check the form to make sure the user's name in 3 or more character long otherwise, the form will fail, so this is the html i would use:



     Code:


<!-- ##### BEGIN HTML CODE ##### -->

<form method="post" action="this_file.php">
<p>Name:
<input type="textfield" name="name">
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</p>
</form>

<!-- ##### BEGIN HTML CODE ##### -->

<?
###### PHP CODE BEGIN #########

f(strlen($_POST[name]) > 3)
{
echo "Your Name is Valid";
}
else
{
echo "Sorry, Your name must contain atleast three characters;
}

###### PHP CODE END #########
?>

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