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This extension is enabled by default as of the PHP version 5.2.0. It can be
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In this example, I have created a HTML form to let the user enter their name
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and email address. On submitting this form the input data are posted to the
PHP file. In PHP code, the $_POST data are sanitized and validated using the
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Share HTML Code to Display the Form and Client-Side Validation Script

The below code shows the HTML for displaying the form with the user name
and email address field. On submitting this form the fnSubscribe() JavaScript
function is called and to do the not-empty check for the form fields in the
client-side.

<form name="frmSubscription" action="" method="POST"

onSubmit="return fnSubscribe();">
<input type="text" name="userName" /><br /> <input type="text"
name="userEmail" /><br /> <input type="submit" name="subsc
value="Subscribe" />
</form>

function fnSubscribe() {
if (document.frmSubscription.userName.value == "") {
return false;
}
if (document.frmSubscription.userEmail.value == "") {
return false;
}
return true;
}

PHP Filter Sanitization and Validation Code

The following PHP code applies sanitization and validation filter on the form
post data. After filtering the user input posted via the HTML form, I have
created the INSERT query to add the user data to the database.

I used FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING and FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL filter to sanitize

the username and email data respectively. And then, I used
FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL to check if the email data is in a valid format.

<?php
if (! empty($_POST["subscribe"])) {
$userName = filter_input(INPUT_POST, "userName", FILTER_SANITI
$userEmail = filter_input(INPUT_POST, "userEmail", FILTER_SANI

$userEmail = filter_var($userEmail, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);

if (! empty($userName) && ! empty($userEmail)) {

$conn = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "test", "blog_
$query = "INSERT INTO tbl_users (userName, userEmail) VALU
mysqli_query($conn, $query);
mysqli_close($conn);
} else {
$message = "All fields are required";
}
}
?>

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Comments to “PHP Input Filtering”

Gideon Birimuye
December 22, 2013 at 2:38 pm

Thanks a bunch vincy.

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