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    copied!<p>I'm having troubles validating my form. How do I validate the form using PHP? I've tried lots of different methods and nothing has worked. I can get the inputs to display (although check-box doesn't always display) but it just won't validate.</p> <p>I also want to display the user's inputs (after it has been validated) onto another page, how do I do that? </p> <p>Here is my code;</p> <p>Form: </p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="&lt;?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?&gt;" method="post"&gt; &lt;label for="name"&gt;Your Name:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="" required&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;label for="email"&gt;Your Email:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" required&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;label for="subject"&gt;Subject:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" value="" required&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Recipient: &lt;div&gt; &lt;label for="admin"&gt; &lt;input type="checkbox" name="recipient[]" id="admin" value="Administrator"&gt; Administrator&lt;/label&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;label for="editor"&gt; &lt;input type="checkbox" name="recipient[]" id="editor" value="Content Editor"&gt; Content Editor&lt;/label&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;label for="message"&gt;Message:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;textarea name="message" id="message" cols="45" rows="5" required&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="1"&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Send"&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>PHP:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $name = $_POST['name']; $email = $_POST['email']; $subject = $_POST['subject']; $message = $_POST['message']; if ($_POST['submitted']==1) { if ($_POST['name']){ $name = $_POST['name']; } else{ echo "&lt;p&gt;Please enter a name.&lt;/p&gt;" ; } if (preg_match("/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i", $email)) $email = $_POST['email']; } else{ echo "&lt;p&gt;Please enter a valid email.&lt;/p&gt;"; } if ($_POST['subject']){ $subject = $_POST['subject']; } else{ echo "&lt;p&gt;Please enter a subject.&lt;/p&gt;"; if(empty($_POST['recipient'])){ echo "&lt;p&gt;Please select a recipient&lt;/p&gt;"; }else{ for ($i=0; $i &lt; count($_POST['recipient']);$i++) { echo $_POST['recipient'][$i] . " "; } } } if ($_POST['message']){ $message = $_POST['message']; } /* go to form.php display results echo "&lt;strong&gt;Your Name:&lt;/strong&gt; ".$name. "&lt;br /&gt;"; echo "&lt;strong&gt;Your Email:&lt;/strong&gt; ".$email. "&lt;br /&gt;"; echo "&lt;strong&gt;Subject:&lt;/strong&gt; ".$subject. "&lt;br /&gt;"; echo "&lt;strong&gt;Recipient:&lt;/strong&gt; "; echo "&lt;br /&gt;"; echo "&lt;strong&gt;Message:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt; " .$message; */ ?&gt; </code></pre>
 

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