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    <p>Here is my validation script:</p> <pre><code>$name = $_POST['name']; $email = $_POST['email']; $text = $_POST['text']; $uploadedfile = $_FILES['uploadedfile']; if (isset($_POST['submit'])) { if ($_POST['name'] != "") { $_POST['name'] = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); if ($_POST['name'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a valid name.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;'; } } else { $errors .= 'enter your name&lt;br/&gt;'; } if ($_POST['email'] != "") { $email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL); if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) { $errors .= "$email is &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; a valid email address.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;"; } } else { $errors .= 'enter your email address&lt;br/&gt;'; } if((empty($_POST['text'])) &amp;&amp; ($_FILES['uploadedfile']['size'] &lt; 1)) /*if((empty($_POST['text'])) &amp;&amp; (empty($_FILES['uploadedfile'])))*/ { $errors .= 'either enter your text or attach a file.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;'; } if ($_POST['text'] != "") { $text = filter_var($_POST['text'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING, FILTER_FLAG_NO_ENCODE_QUOTES); if ($_POST['text'] == "") { $errors .= 'Please enter a valid text.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;'; } } if (!$errors) {do some commands} else { echo '&lt;div style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-align: center"&gt; The form was not sent. Please &lt;br /&gt;' . $errors . '&lt;br/&gt; &lt;/div&gt;'; } </code></pre> <p>After this script comes my HTML with the form:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form id="form" action="quot_form.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"&gt; &lt;div class = "left"&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;legend&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Personal information&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/legend&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;label for="name"&gt;Full name&lt;span class = "star"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="&lt;?php echo $name?&gt;" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;label for="company"&gt;Company: &lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="company" id="company" value="&lt;?php echo $company?&gt;" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;label for="email"&gt;Email&lt;span class = "star"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="&lt;?php echo $email?&gt;" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;label for="phone"&gt;Telephone: &lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" value="&lt;?php echo $phone?&gt;" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;label for="fax"&gt;Fax: &lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="fax" id="fax" value="&lt;?php echo $fax?&gt;" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;label for="country"&gt;Country: &lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="country" id="country" value="&lt;?php echo $country?&gt;" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;div class="spacer"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;h3&gt;General comments:&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;textarea id = "comment" name="comment"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;div id = "mandatory"&gt; &lt;span class = "star"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; Required fields &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class = "right"&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;legend&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Enter text or upload file&lt;span class = "star"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/legend&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;textarea name="text"&gt;&lt;?php echo $text?&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class = "upload"&gt; &lt;input type="file" name="uploadedfile" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;div class="spacer_small"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;legend&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Languages&lt;span class = "star"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/legend&gt; &lt;div class="spacer_small"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;span class = "language"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;select name="from"&gt; &lt;option value="ach"&gt;Acoli&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="afr"&gt;Afrikaans&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="alb"&gt;Albanian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="amh"&gt;Amharic&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="hbo"&gt;Ancient Hebrew&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ara"&gt;Arabic&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="aze"&gt;Azerbaijani&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="baq"&gt;Basque&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="bel"&gt;Belarusian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ben"&gt;Bengali&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".bo"&gt;Bosnian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="bre"&gt;Breton&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="bul"&gt;Bulgarian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="cat"&gt;Catalan&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="che"&gt;Chechen&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="chi"&gt;Chinese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="chk"&gt;Chuukese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mus"&gt;Creek&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".cr"&gt;Croatian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ces"&gt;Czech&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="dak"&gt;Dakota&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="dan"&gt;Danish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="din"&gt;Dinka&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="dut"&gt;Dutch&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="eng"&gt;English&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="epo"&gt;Esperanto&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="est"&gt;Estonian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="fng"&gt;Fanagalo&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".fs"&gt;Farsi (Persian)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="fin"&gt;Finnish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".fl"&gt;Flemish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="fra"&gt;French&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="fur"&gt;Friulian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="gae"&gt;Gaelic&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="glg"&gt;Galician&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="geo"&gt;Georgian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="deu"&gt;German&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ell"&gt;Greek&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="grc"&gt;Greek (Ancient)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="grn"&gt;Guarani&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="guj"&gt;Gujarati&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".hc"&gt;Haitian-Creole&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="hau"&gt;Hausa&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="heb"&gt;Hebrew&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="her"&gt;Herero&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="hin"&gt;Hindi&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".hm"&gt;Hmong&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="hun"&gt;Hungarian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ice"&gt;Icelandic&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ibo"&gt;Igbo&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ind"&gt;Indonesian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="gai"&gt;Irish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ita"&gt;Italian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="jpn"&gt;Japanese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="jav"&gt;Javanese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="kab"&gt;Kabyle&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="xal"&gt;Kalmyk-Oirat&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="khm"&gt;Khmer&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="kor"&gt;Korean&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="kur"&gt;Kurdish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="lat"&gt;Latin&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="lav"&gt;Latvian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="lit"&gt;Lithuanian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mac"&gt;Macedonian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mlg"&gt;Malagasy&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="may"&gt;Malay&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mal"&gt;Malayalam&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mlt"&gt;Maltese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mao"&gt;Maori&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mar"&gt;Marathi&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mas"&gt;Masai&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="myn"&gt;Mayanlanguages&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mon"&gt;Mongolian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nah"&gt;Nahuatl (Aztec)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nde"&gt;NdebeleNorth&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nbl"&gt;NdebeleSouth&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nep"&gt;Nepali&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nor"&gt;Norwegian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nob"&gt;Norwegian(Bokmal)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="pan"&gt;Panjabi&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="fas"&gt;Persian (Farsi)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="pol"&gt;Polish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="por"&gt;Portuguese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="pus"&gt;Pushto&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="raj"&gt;Rajasthani&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ron"&gt;Romanian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="rus"&gt;Russian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="san"&gt;Sanskrit&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="..."&gt;Serbian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="scr"&gt;Serbo-Croat&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="sot"&gt;Sesotho (S. Sotho)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="sna"&gt;Shona&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".sg"&gt;Sign Language&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="sin"&gt;Sinhalese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="sit"&gt;Sino-Tibetan&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".ss"&gt;SiSwati (Swazi)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="slk"&gt;Slovak&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="slv"&gt;Slovenian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="esl" selected="selected"&gt;Spanish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="swa"&gt;Swahili&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="sve"&gt;Swedish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tgl"&gt;Tagalog&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tah"&gt;Tahitian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tam"&gt;Tamil&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tat"&gt;Tatar&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tel"&gt;Telugu&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tet"&gt;Tetum&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tha"&gt;Thai&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="bod"&gt;Tibetan&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tso"&gt;Tsonga&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tsn"&gt;Tswana&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tur"&gt;Turkish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ukr"&gt;Ukrainian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="urd"&gt;Urdu&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ven"&gt;Venda&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="vie"&gt;Vietnamese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="cym"&gt;Welsh&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="yid"&gt;Yiddish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="zha"&gt;Zhuang (Chuang)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="zul"&gt;Zulu&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div class="spacer_small"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="spacer_small"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="spacer_small"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span class = "language"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;select name="to"&gt; &lt;option value="ach"&gt;Acoli&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="afr"&gt;Afrikaans&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="alb"&gt;Albanian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="amh"&gt;Amharic&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="hbo"&gt;Ancient Hebrew&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ara"&gt;Arabic&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="aze"&gt;Azerbaijani&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="baq"&gt;Basque&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="bel"&gt;Belarusian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ben"&gt;Bengali&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".bo"&gt;Bosnian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="bre"&gt;Breton&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="bul"&gt;Bulgarian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="cat"&gt;Catalan&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="che"&gt;Chechen&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="chi"&gt;Chinese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="chk"&gt;Chuukese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mus"&gt;Creek&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".cr"&gt;Croatian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ces"&gt;Czech&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="dak"&gt;Dakota&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="dan"&gt;Danish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="din"&gt;Dinka&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="dut"&gt;Dutch&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="eng" selected="selected"&gt;English&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="epo"&gt;Esperanto&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="est"&gt;Estonian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="fng"&gt;Fanagalo&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".fs"&gt;Farsi (Persian)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="fin"&gt;Finnish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".fl"&gt;Flemish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="fra"&gt;French&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="fur"&gt;Friulian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="gae"&gt;Gaelic&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="glg"&gt;Galician&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="geo"&gt;Georgian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="deu"&gt;German&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ell"&gt;Greek&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="grc"&gt;Greek (Ancient)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="grn"&gt;Guarani&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="guj"&gt;Gujarati&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".hc"&gt;Haitian-Creole&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="hau"&gt;Hausa&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="heb"&gt;Hebrew&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="her"&gt;Herero&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="hin"&gt;Hindi&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".hm"&gt;Hmong&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="hun"&gt;Hungarian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ice"&gt;Icelandic&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ibo"&gt;Igbo&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ind"&gt;Indonesian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="gai"&gt;Irish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ita"&gt;Italian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="jpn"&gt;Japanese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="jav"&gt;Javanese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="kab"&gt;Kabyle&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="xal"&gt;Kalmyk-Oirat&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="khm"&gt;Khmer&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="kor"&gt;Korean&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="kur"&gt;Kurdish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="lat"&gt;Latin&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="lav"&gt;Latvian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="lit"&gt;Lithuanian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mac"&gt;Macedonian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mlg"&gt;Malagasy&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="may"&gt;Malay&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mal"&gt;Malayalam&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mlt"&gt;Maltese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mao"&gt;Maori&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mar"&gt;Marathi&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mas"&gt;Masai&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="myn"&gt;Mayanlanguages&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="mon"&gt;Mongolian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nah"&gt;Nahuatl (Aztec)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nde"&gt;NdebeleNorth&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nbl"&gt;NdebeleSouth&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nep"&gt;Nepali&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nor"&gt;Norwegian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="nob"&gt;Norwegian(Bokmal)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="pan"&gt;Panjabi&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="fas"&gt;Persian (Farsi)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="pol"&gt;Polish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="por"&gt;Portuguese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="pus"&gt;Pushto&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="raj"&gt;Rajasthani&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ron"&gt;Romanian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="rus"&gt;Russian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="san"&gt;Sanskrit&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="..."&gt;Serbian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="scr"&gt;Serbo-Croat&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="sot"&gt;Sesotho (S. Sotho)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="sna"&gt;Shona&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".sg"&gt;Sign Language&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="sin"&gt;Sinhalese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="sit"&gt;Sino-Tibetan&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value=".ss"&gt;SiSwati (Swazi)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="slk"&gt;Slovak&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="slv"&gt;Slovenian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="esl"&gt;Spanish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="swa"&gt;Swahili&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="sve"&gt;Swedish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tgl"&gt;Tagalog&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tah"&gt;Tahitian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tam"&gt;Tamil&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tat"&gt;Tatar&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tel"&gt;Telugu&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tet"&gt;Tetum&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tha"&gt;Thai&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="bod"&gt;Tibetan&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tso"&gt;Tsonga&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tsn"&gt;Tswana&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="tur"&gt;Turkish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ukr"&gt;Ukrainian&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="urd"&gt;Urdu&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="ven"&gt;Venda&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="vie"&gt;Vietnamese&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="cym"&gt;Welsh&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="yid"&gt;Yiddish&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="zha"&gt;Zhuang (Chuang)&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="zul"&gt;Zulu&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;div class="fileinputs"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" class="file" name="submit" value = "SEND" /&gt; &lt;div class="fakefile"&gt; &lt;img src="images/send_small.png" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="fileinputs"&gt; &lt;input type="reset" class="file" /&gt; &lt;div class="fakefile"&gt; &lt;img src="images/reset_small.png" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>Currently, the error messages appear outside the page, above it. 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