well, lets say you want to make sure that people don't put more than four digits into the year field. so if someone enters 20078, your script should reject the entry and display an error.
well, to find out how many characters are in a string, you can use the strlen() in php.
so, lets follow my example. lets say the your visitor has enter their information and the value of the year field is like this:
$year = 20079
as you can see, the number of characters in $year is 5, so how do you count the characters in a string, you can use this as an example:
<?
if(strlen($string) > 4) { echo 'Error. this field requires only 4 characters';}
?>
if(strlen($string) > 4) { echo 'Error. this field requires only 4 characters';}
?>
the above code just simple checks if the value of $string is more than 4 characters, it will display
Error. this field requires only 4 characters
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