PHP: check if any posted vars are empty - form: all fields required

Question

Is there a simpler function to something like this:

if (isset($_POST[\'Submit\'])) {
    if ($_POST[\'login\'] == \"\" || $_POST[\'password\'] == \"\" || $_P         


        

Answer 1

I did it like this:

$missing = array();
 foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) { if ($value == "") { array_push($missing, $key);}}
 if (count($missing) > 0) {
  echo "Required fields found empty: ";
  foreach ($missing as $k => $v) { echo $v." ";}
  } else {
  unset($missing);
  // do your stuff here with the $_POST
  }

Answer 2

empty and isset should do it.

if(!isset($_POST['submit'])) exit();

$vars = array('login', 'password','confirm', 'name', 'email', 'phone');
$verified = TRUE;
foreach($vars as $v) {
   if(!isset($_POST[$v]) || empty($_POST[$v])) {
      $verified = FALSE;
   }
}
if(!$verified) {
  //error here...
  exit();
}
//process here...

Answer 3

I use my own custom function...

public function areNull() {
    if (func_num_args() == 0) return false;
    $arguments = func_get_args();
    foreach ($arguments as $argument):
        if (is_null($argument)) return true;
    endforeach;
    return false;
}
$var = areNull("username", "password", "etc");

I'm sure it can easily be changed for you scenario. Basically it returns true if any of the values are NULL, so you could change it to empty or whatever.

Answer 4

foreach($_POST as $key=>$value)
{

   if(empty(trim($value))
        echo "$key input required of value ";

}

Answer 5

I just wrote a quick function to do this. I needed it to handle many forms so I made it so it will accept a string separated by ','.

//function to make sure that all of the required fields of a post are sent. Returns True for error and False for NO error  
//accepts a string that is then parsed by "," into an array. The array is then checked for empty values.
function errorPOSTEmpty($stringOfFields) {
        $error = false;
            if(!empty($stringOfFields)) {
                // Required field names
                $required = explode(',',$stringOfFields);
                // Loop over field names
                foreach($required as $field) {
                  // Make sure each one exists and is not empty
                  if (empty($_POST[$field])) {
                    $error = true;
                    // No need to continue loop if 1 is found.
                    break;
                  }
                }
            }
    return $error;
}

So you can enter this function in your code, and handle errors on a per page basis.

$postError = errorPOSTEmpty('login,password,confirm,name,phone,email');

if ($postError === true) {
  ...error code...
} else {
  ...vars set goto POSTing code...
}

Answer 6

if( isset( $_POST['login'] ) &&  strlen( $_POST['login'] ))
{
  // valid $_POST['login'] is set and its value is greater than zero
}
else
{
  //error either $_POST['login'] is not set or $_POST['login'] is empty form field
}