On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:56:01 +0200, William Gill <noreply@example.com>
wrote:

> I have decided that Since I have to update the processing on many of my
> forms, I'm going to start them all over from scratch. Before I begin I
> thought I'd solicit comments on using the PHP regex functions vs using
> the filter functions for cleaning and validating user input.

What are the 'filter functions' you're talking about?

Besides that, validating is often just using the right tool for the job.
Is it a number, is a record in a database that should exist etc... All
depending on the desired implementation.

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