在PHP中验证选择下拉数组

时间:2011-06-04 02:50:21

标签: php validation

我有以下内容在表单上生成状态下拉列表:

$states = array('State', 'Alabama', 'Alaska', 'Arizona', 'Arkansas');
echo "<select name='choose_state'>\n";
foreach ($states as $key => $state)
{echo "<option value='$key'>$state</option>\n";}
echo "</select>";

我如何确保用户确定 1)仅选择阵列中的一个选项
2)没有选择默认值? ([0] =&gt; string(5)“State”)

编辑:在php中验证,这是用于在发布到数据库之前收集用户信息的表单 我尝试使用in_array并试图排除默认值

3 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:1)

我认为你错过了一些支票。您永远不应该依赖于精心张贴的内容,并始终执行彻底的检查:

$chosen_state = null;

if (array_key_exists('choose_state', $_POST))
{
  $choose_state = $_POST['choose_state'];
  if (array_key_exists($choose_state, $states) && $choose_state > 0)
  {
    // Value does actually exist in array and is not item 0.
    $chosen_state = $states[$chose_state]);
  }
}

答案 1 :(得分:0)

以下示例假设您在var $state_key中存储了为select提供的密钥...

试试这个:

$max = sizeof($states) - 1; // this is the number of possible values that you have, minus the default
if($state_key != 0 && $state_key > 0 && $state_key < $max)
{
    // do whatever here, you've got good data at this point
}

顺便说一下,这也假设您的默认值始终是键#0(数组中的第一个)。

答案 2 :(得分:-1)

在php中验证表单提交:

在php中提交表单时,选择输入类型会在post中返回选定的值。所以你可以这样做:

$selectedindex = $_POST["choose_state"]; 

if($selectedindex == 0)
{

   echo "Default item has been selected";

}
else{

   echo "Other than default item has been selected ";
   //you can do further validation here for selected item
   //is in between 0 and 5 if you need to do so

}