Re: password field validation

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle
<mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have an input field with type="password".
>
> I am trying to do some error checking to see if the user puts a value in
> after they submit the form (i.e not left it blank)
>
> Here is what I have:
>
> on form:
> Password: <input id="PASSWORD" name="PASSWORD" type="password" size="15">
>
> In PHP error checking:
>
> if (empty($_POST[PASSSWORD]))
> { $GERROR="TRUE";}
>
> even though I am putting characters in the field before I submit I am always
> getting TRUE returned.
>
> This same tactic works for other fields I have that I need to make sure they
> put values in, just I have never done this before with a password field.
>
> What am I doing wrong? I just want to make sure they put something there!
>
> -Jason

If that's a direct copy/paste from your actual code, there is an extra
S in PASSWORD. Also, you should enclose the array key in quotes:

if (empty($_POST['PASSWORD']))
{ $GERROR='TRUE'; }


Andrew

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