Re: [PHP] validating textarea using php

On Tue, 13 May 2008, Sudhakar wrote:

> hi
>
> i need to validate textarea of a html form using php
>
> <textarea name="comments" cols="26" rows="3" id="comments"><?php
> echo($comments);?></textarea>
>
> presently my php code to validate the text area is
>
> if($comments == "" )
> {
> $error.="<br>Please enter your comments";
> }
>
> with this code if a user hits the space bar once or couple of times as a
> matter of fact there are no characters entered by the user i do not want
> this to happen, if a user simply hits the spacebar and does not type
> anything i should be able to display an alert message.
>
> please advice how i can change the above php code.
>
> thanks.
>

if(chop($comments) == "") { ... }   //hope that helps.