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easy question

Sep 16th, 2008

Easy question, except I don't know how to do it. I want to ask for user's email address and then have them confirm it. How do I use php to check to make sure the confirmation matches the first email address entered?

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Re: easy question

Sep 16th, 2008

 Help with Code Tags 
 PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
 
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
  <label>Email
  <input type="text" name="email1" />
  </label>
  <p>
    <label>Confirm Email
    <input type="text" name="email2" />
    </label>
  </p>
</form>
 
<?php
 
$email1=email1;
$email2=email2;
 
if ($email1 == $email2)
  echo "Emails are  the same!"; 
else
  echo "Emails are Incorrect!"; 
?>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
  <label>Email
  <input type="text" name="email1" />
  </label>
  <p>
    <label>Confirm Email
    <input type="text" name="email2" />
    </label>
  </p>
</form>

<?php

$email1=email1;
$email2=email2;

if ($email1 == $email2)
  echo "Emails are  the same!"; 
else
  echo "Emails are Incorrect!"; 
?>

Last edited by mattyb15; Sep 16th, 2008 at 9:53 am.

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Re: easy question

Sep 16th, 2008

I'm not exactly crash hot at PHP so im not 100% sure thats correct, but i thought i'd give it a shot.

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Re: easy question

Sep 16th, 2008

Should work, but you might want to use this for strings

if you don't care about case use strcasecmp instead strcmp

if equal they will return 0

 Help with Code Tags 
 PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
if(strcmp($email1, $email2)==0){
  echo "Emails are same";
} else {
echo "Emails are Incorrect";
}
if(strcmp($email1, $email2)==0){
  echo "Emails are same";
} else {
echo "Emails are Incorrect";
}

Last edited by dickersonka; Sep 16th, 2008 at 11:15 am.

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Re: easy question

Sep 16th, 2008

And you probably want to declare the E-mail variables correctly. Also, paragraph tags within a form used in that way aren't exactly semantically correct. It's acceptable to use <br /> tags right after the labels or CSS floats if you want to help style your form rather than paragraph tags, as form elements aren't exactly paragraphs. Oh, and the name attribute on a form tag is not valid if you're using XHTML.

I'm a neat freak. :/

 Help with Code Tags 
 PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
<form id="form1" method="post" action="">
 <fieldset>
  <legend>E-mail</legend>
  <label for="email1">Email</label>
  <input type="text" name="email1" />
  <label for="email2">Confirm Email</label>
  <input type="text" name="email2" />
 </fieldset>
</form>
 
<?php
$email1 = $_POST['email1'];
$email2 = $_POST['email2'];
 
if (strcmp($email1, $email2) == 0) {
 echo "Emails are  the same!"; 
} else {
 echo "Emails are not the same!"; 
}
?>
<form id="form1" method="post" action="">
 <fieldset>
  <legend>E-mail</legend>
  <label for="email1">Email</label>
  <input type="text" name="email1" />
  <label for="email2">Confirm Email</label>
  <input type="text" name="email2" />
 </fieldset>
</form>

<?php
$email1 = $_POST['email1'];
$email2 = $_POST['email2'];

if (strcmp($email1, $email2) == 0) {
 echo "Emails are  the same!"; 
} else {
 echo "Emails are not the same!"; 
}
?>