validation problem

[amarafzal]

Hi All

Got a small problem. Im doing some validation, some code that i am allready using is:
$name = $POST['name'];
$home_phone = $POST['home_phone'];
$mobile = $POST['mobile'];
$address = $POST['address'];
$postcode = $POST['postcode'];
$cand_email = $POST['cand_email'];

if((!$name) || (!$cand_email)){
echo '<strong>You did not submit the following required information:</strong> <br />';
if(!$name){
echo "Name is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
}
if(!$cand_email){
echo "Email address field is required. Please enter it below.<br />";
}
include 'apply_form.php';
include 'footer.htm';

exit();

What i want to do is to make sure that the user has attached a docuement, how can i do that with the code im using. Ive tried doing what i have done above but that still doesnt work.

Any ideas?

[stolzyboy]

this should get you in the right direction, it is untested so there may be parse errors

<?
// written assuming that you are using 
// $attach as your attachment variable
$attach = $_POST['attach'];
$name = $_POST['name']; 
$home_phone = $_POST['home_phone']; 
$mobile = $_POST['mobile']; 
$address = $_POST['address']; 
$postcode = $_POST['postcode']; 
$cand_email = $_POST['cand_email']; 
// all above can be done with extract($_POST); this will convert
// all posted vars from $_POST[''] format to a simple $ format

if((!$name) || (!$cand_email) || (!$attach))
{ 
	echo "<strong>You did not submit the following required information:</strong> <br />"; 
	if(!$name)
	{
	echo "Name is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />"; 
	}
	else if(!$cand_email)
	{
	echo "Email address field is required. Please enter it below.<br />";
	}
	else if (!$attach)
	{
	echo "You must have an attachment. Please choose below.<br />";
	}
	else
	{
	}
}
include 'apply_form.php'; 
include 'footer.htm'; 
exit();
?>

[amarafzal]

I have used the following code:

$name = $POST['name'];
$home_phone = $POST['home_phone'];
$mobile = $POST['mobile'];
$address = $POST['address'];
$postcode = $POST['postcode'];
$cand_email = $POST['cand_email'];
$cv = $_POST['cv'];

if((!$name) || (!$cand_email) || (!$cv)){
echo '<strong>You did not submit the following required information:</strong> <br />';
if(!$name){
echo "Name is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
}
if(!$cand_email){
echo "Email address field is required. Please enter it below.<br />";
}
if(!$cv){
echo "cv field is required. Please enter it below.<br />";
}
include 'apply_form.php';
include 'footer.htm';

exit(); // if the error checking has failed, we'll exit the script!
}

And in the previous form, in each of the fields i have put a value as:
<? echo $cand_email; ?>

But with the CV, because it is attachement it doesnt work. If you dont fill in the required fields you get an error, beside the cv field, the other work fine. Even if you put an attachement in it keeps on saying you havent attached a cv.

HELP??????????!!!!!!!!!!
🙁

[Weedpacket]

If the CV is an attachement, you should be looking in the $_FILES[] array for it.

Incidentally, it's generally a better idea to use if(empty($POST['foo'])) instead of if(!$POST['foo']) when looking to see if foo was filled in or not (and do so before putting its value into any other variable); the latter approach is also capable of causing errors.

[amarafzal]

IVE tried what you said but im still getting the same problem, ive tried to use is_uploaded_file function. Any more ideas?

if((!$name) || (!$cand_email) || (!$attach)){
echo '<strong>You did not submit the following required information:</strong> <br />';
if(empty($POST['name'])) {
echo "Name is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
}
if(empty($POST['cand_email'])) {

echo "Email address field is required. Please enter it below.<br />";
}

if(is_uploaded_file($_FILES['fileatt'])) {
echo "cv attached.<br/>";
}else{
echo"please attach CV";
}
include 'apply_form.php';
include 'footer.htm';

exit();

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by amarafzal
IVE tried what you said but im still getting the same problem, ive tried to use is_uploaded_file function. Any more ideas?

Only some of those mentioned in the user notes on the cited page:
1) is_uploaded_file($_FILES["userfile"]["tmp_name"]
2) ENCTYPE needs to be correct in the form
3) php.ini must be set to allow file uploads
4) the maximum size allowed must be great enough to allow the file to be uploaded