PHP Validations for name, email, url

Following validations can be used in php form validation 


PHP - Validate Name

The code below shows a simple way to check if the name field only contains letters and whitespace. If the value of the name field is not valid, then store an error message :

$name = test_input($_POST["name"]);
if (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/",$name)) 
{
$nameErr = "Only letters and white spaces allowed";
}

PHP - Validate E-mail

The easiest and safest way to check whether an email address is well-formed is to use PHP's filter_var() function.
In the code below, if the e-mail address is not well-formed, then store an error message :

$email = test_input($_POST["email"]);
if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))

{
  $emailErr = "Invalid email";
}

 

 

PHP - Validate URL

The code below shows a way to check if a URL address syntax is valid (this regular expression also allows dashes in the URL). If the URL address syntax is not valid, then store an error message :

$website = test_input($_POST["website"]);
if (!preg_match("/\b(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]/i",$website)) 

{
  $websiteErr = "Invalid URL";
}