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PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

By : Doug Bierer
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PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

By: Doug Bierer

Overview of this book

PHP 7 comes with a myriad of new features and great tools to optimize your code and make your code perform faster than in previous versions. Most importantly, it allows you to maintain high traffic on your websites with low-cost hardware and servers through a multithreading web server. This book demonstrates intermediate to advanced PHP techniques with a focus on PHP 7. Each recipe is designed to solve practical, real-world problems faced by PHP developers like yourself every day. We also cover new ways of writing PHP code made possible only in version 7. In addition, we discuss backward-compatibility breaks and give you plenty of guidance on when and where PHP 5 code needs to be changed to produce the correct results when running under PHP 7. This book also incorporates the latest PHP 7.x features. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the tools and skills required to deliver efficient applications for your websites and enterprises.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
PHP 7 Programming Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Tying validation to a form


When a form is first rendered, there is little value in having a form class (such as Application\Form\Factory, described in the previous recipe) tied to a class that can perform filtering or validation (such as the Application\Filter\* described in the previous recipe). Once the form data has been submitted, however, interest grows. If the form data fails validation, the values can be filtered, and then re-displayed. Validation error messages can be tied to form elements, and rendered next to form fields.

How to do it...

  1. First of all, be sure to implement the classes defined in the Implementing a Form Factory, Chaining $_POST Filters, and Chaining $_POST Validators recipes.

  2. We will now turn our attention to the Application\Form\Factory class, and add properties and setters that allow us to attach instances of Application\Filter\Filter and Application\Filter\Validator. We also need define $data, which will be used to retain the filtered and/or validated data:

    const...