how to validate a number

[WindAndWaves]

Hi Gurus

Excuse my ignorance.... I am just learning PHP and I am loving it - I am
just amazed by what it has to offer - it seems endless.

Anyway, I want to ask something very simple. How can I for a value to be a
number between 0 and 99 or 0 and 99999?

I have included a code snippet of where I would like to add it.

TIA
- Nicolaas

// check MIN AND MAX RATE for validity (between 1 and 100,000)

if ($min_rate >0 && $max_rate <99999) {

$sql .= " AND (a.rateMin >=$min_rate AND a.rateMax <=$max_rate) ";

$humanSQL .= "<LI>the tariffs range is between (in New Zealand
dollars): $min_rate and $max_rate </LI>";

}

[News Me]

WindAndWaves wrote:

Hi Gurus

Excuse my ignorance.... I am just learning PHP and I am loving it - I am
just amazed by what it has to offer - it seems endless.

Anyway, I want to ask something very simple. How can I for a value to be a
number between 0 and 99 or 0 and 99999?

This is explained in this section

XCI. Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)

of the PHP manual.

NM

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[Sean]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:12:23 +1300, "WindAndWaves" <ac****@ngaru.com>
reverently intoned upon the aether:

Hi Gurus

Excuse my ignorance.... I am just learning PHP and I am loving it - I am
just amazed by what it has to offer - it seems endless.

Anyway, I want to ask something very simple. How can I for a value to be a
number between 0 and 99 or 0 and 99999?

I have included a code snippet of where I would like to add it.

TIA
- Nicolaas

// check MIN AND MAX RATE for validity (between 1 and 100,000)

if ($min_rate >0 && $max_rate <99999) {

$sql .= " AND (a.rateMin >=$min_rate AND a.rateMax <=$max_rate) ";

$humanSQL .= "<LI>the tariffs range is between (in New Zealand
dollars): $min_rate and $max_rate </LI>";

}

Try the routines at the following link:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/o...s.zip?download

The code inside them is reasonably well commented.

I would also suggest reading the following info as a starting place
unless you are already comfortable with handling SQL injection and XSS
issues.

http://www.owasp.org/documentation/topten.html

hope this helps,

Sean
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends."

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Last Updated 29 Sept. 2004

[Narcis Radu]

WindAndWaves wrote:

Hi Gurus

Excuse my ignorance.... I am just learning PHP and I am loving it - I am
just amazed by what it has to offer - it seems endless.

Anyway, I want to ask something very simple. How can I for a value to be a
number between 0 and 99 or 0 and 99999?

I have included a code snippet of where I would like to add it.

TIA
- Nicolaas

// check MIN AND MAX RATE for validity (between 1 and 100,000)

if ($min_rate >0 && $max_rate <99999) {

$sql .= " AND (a.rateMin >=$min_rate AND a.rateMax <=$max_rate) ";

$humanSQL .= "<LI>the tariffs range is between (in New Zealand
dollars): $min_rate and $max_rate </LI>";

}

Hi there!

I prefer to use it in this way:
if (is_numeric($min_rate) && $min_rate >0 && $max_rate <99999)

sometimes could be some white spaces so you can use
is_numeric(trim($min_rate))

Narcis