USING FORM VALIDATIONS

Form validation is important for a list of reasons, anywhere from preventing unintentionally messing up a database to securing your system from malicious injection attacks, as well as the more mundane reasons such as making sure that the data entered makes sense. For example, a first name field probably shouldn’t permit special characters like $%&#@ or numbers.

Traditionally, you would use jQuery, or some form of JavaScript, to either mask a field or validate the data entered. The simplest example is to check that data has been entered for a required field:

if($(“#myInput”).val() !== ''){
// handle here
}

A note of caution: your carefully crafted validation is useless if end users turn off JavaScript features on their browsers. Data should be sanitized on both the server and client side before saving.