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Christian Damm
26,486 Pointsemail validation without browser standards
We validate the email-address with PHPMailer method validateAddress($email)
if(!$mail->validateAddress($email)) {
echo "Error: You must specify a valid eMail address.";
exit;
}
But when we use the input type email the browser checks it with its own functions.
3 Answers
Myroslav Tkachenko
10,581 Pointsyou can turn off browser "validation" with setting an novalidate attribute to the form tag:
<form action="" method="post" novalidate>
...
</form>
Logan R
22,989 PointsIf you are asking why validate when browsers will take care of it:
It is never safe to rely on browsers to do input checking. People have outdated browsers can get around this or malicious people who want to spam you will take advantage of this.
Christian Damm
26,486 PointsHi Logan, I would like to overwrite the browser messages with my error messages. Maybe it comes later with an other php course.
Christian Damm
26,486 PointsThat's it. But I guess it should be written in this way:
<form method="post" action="contact.php" novalidate="novalidate">
Anyway, thanks a lot.
Myroslav Tkachenko
10,581 Pointsin HTML5 setting a novalidate attribute without a value is a perfectly valid way, but in previous HTML standards it's not.
UPD. anyway, in the previous versions of the HTML standards there was no novalidate arrtribute :)