PHP Form Validator open-source script, where do I look?

[ppowell]

Where can I find an online PHP form validator script library to use? I have tried hacking the one here at work for weeks now and it's getting more and more impossible to customize, especially now with form elements that turn out to be arrays that have to be compared with one another!

I have one form element, languages, a checkbox group. Beside each checkbox is a dropdown, proficiency (which will become proficiency[] alongside languages[]). The crux of the matter is that I have to compare a checked language with the selected proficiency, the proficiency dropdown beside the checked language must be selected; furthermore, at least one language must be checked, up to 4.

To complicate matters further, Javascript client-side validation is forbidden due to Section 508 U.S. Government compliance putting a lock on any client-side validation script. Section 508 dictates that all things in <script> tags must be followed by <noscript> corresponding logic, which is impossible for validation, so no client-side validation.

I am tired of hacking this existing set of classes and about 50 methods per class to validate more the more complicated forms I have to develop. I didn't even mention that you have a group of form elements pertaining to "job history": about 15 textboxes, 3 radio buttons and 5 dropdowns - PER JOB HISTORY that will dynamically appear per user clicking a "Add New Employment History" button. So now you will have jobTitle[], jobAddress[], jobStartDateMonth[], jobStartDateYear[], jobEndDateDay[], etc.

So, basically it's either I keep hacking at the existing code.. or I find an existing form validator package out there. Recommendations, anyone?

Thanx
Phil

[stolzyboy]

I doubt you are going to find a script that suits your needs. It sounds like you would have to customize just about anything that you would find anyway, so I'd probably just stick with the one you got... You get paid hourly anyway, right, and if not, it's job security having to do drudge through it...

Good Luck

[ppowell]

Job security issues aside, we do have deadlines here! 🙁

Anyway the only part of my validation class script that does not work right has to do with comparing two form element array groups; Array Group 1 is enumerative based on a checkbox group (meaning: it only adds to Array Group 1 if you checked something); Array Group 2 is associative with the key being the value (ID) of the checked item in Array Group 1.

Some algorithm, eh?

So, i have to compare: If I checked something in Array Group 1 (the checkbox group), did I also select something from the corresponding dropdown in Array Group 2?

Phil