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After having to learn php pretty quickly for a project at uni I'm starting to enjoy it a lot more and have pretty much created what I set out to do for the first part of the project. There are just a few things I wanted to check.
For the system I've created I have users registering with the site, Just wondered what I should be checking when they click the submit button.
At the moment I check to make sure what is entered is not an empty string, that something has been entered and that it is of a suitable size. ie between 3 and 12 characters.
Using MD5 to hash their password and I'm asking for their password twice to make sure that they both match.
Was just wondering if there are other things I should be checking and how to go about it. ie how do I go about making sure that the date of birth they enter is a valid date? Would appreciate any other pointers.
When they register I'm asking for:
UserName:
Password:
Re-type Password:
First name:
Last name:
Address:
Town/City:
Postcode:
E-mail:
Mobile Phone Numer:
Date of Birth (YYYY-MM-DD):
Thanks
For the system I've created I have users registering with the site, Just wondered what I should be checking when they click the submit button.
At the moment I check to make sure what is entered is not an empty string, that something has been entered and that it is of a suitable size. ie between 3 and 12 characters.
Using MD5 to hash their password and I'm asking for their password twice to make sure that they both match.
Was just wondering if there are other things I should be checking and how to go about it. ie how do I go about making sure that the date of birth they enter is a valid date? Would appreciate any other pointers.
When they register I'm asking for:
UserName:
Password:
Re-type Password:
First name:
Last name:
Address:
Town/City:
Postcode:
E-mail:
Mobile Phone Numer:
Date of Birth (YYYY-MM-DD):
Thanks
Excellent.
Thanks
Thanks
Yeah, use sendmail() and it should work fine.
Is it possible to send e-mails if I'm just running apache on my pc? Was something I meant to look into but totally forgot about.
Cheers for the link, just going to read through that now.
Cheers for the link, just going to read through that now.
You can validate their email address quite cleverly. For starters, you can check to see if the syntax is valid - e.g. it looks like a valid email address.
Secondly, you can actually run an MX check to see if that email address is a real email address that can accept email: [URL]http://www.zend.com/codex.php?id=449&single=1[/URL]
Of course, you can obviously send them an email and force them to validate the link...up to you...
Secondly, you can actually run an MX check to see if that email address is a real email address that can accept email: [URL]http://www.zend.com/codex.php?id=449&single=1[/URL]
Of course, you can obviously send them an email and force them to validate the link...up to you...
After having to learn php pretty quickly for a project at uni I'm starting to enjoy it a lot more and have pretty much created what I set out to do for the first part of the project. There are just a few things I wanted to check.
For the system I've created I have users registering with the site, Just wondered what I should be checking when they click the submit button.
At the moment I check to make sure what is entered is not an empty string, that something has been entered and that it is of a suitable size. ie between 3 and 12 characters.
Using MD5 to hash their password and I'm asking for their password twice to make sure that they both match.
Was just wondering if there are other things I should be checking and how to go about it. ie how do I go about making sure that the date of birth they enter is a valid date? Would appreciate any other pointers.
When they register I'm asking for:
UserName:
Password:
Re-type Password:
First name:
Last name:
Address:
Town/City:
Postcode:
E-mail:
Mobile Phone Numer:
Date of Birth (YYYY-MM-DD):
Thanks
For the system I've created I have users registering with the site, Just wondered what I should be checking when they click the submit button.
At the moment I check to make sure what is entered is not an empty string, that something has been entered and that it is of a suitable size. ie between 3 and 12 characters.
Using MD5 to hash their password and I'm asking for their password twice to make sure that they both match.
Was just wondering if there are other things I should be checking and how to go about it. ie how do I go about making sure that the date of birth they enter is a valid date? Would appreciate any other pointers.
When they register I'm asking for:
UserName:
Password:
Re-type Password:
First name:
Last name:
Address:
Town/City:
Postcode:
E-mail:
Mobile Phone Numer:
Date of Birth (YYYY-MM-DD):
Thanks