Validating and Processing Forms with JavaScript and PHP

Learn how to ensure the data submitted to your web forms is complete, accurate, and nonmalicious with HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, and PHP form processing and validation.Validating web forms is a critical skill for any web developer, ensuring that the data that's submitted is complete, accurate, and nonmalicious before it's sent off to the server. Join author Ray Villalobos in this course as he shows how to validate input from site visitors with HTML5, JavaScript, and jQuery and then process the data with PHP. Plus, learn how to email form data and save it in a MySQL database so that it's ready for other applications. Topics include: Understanding forms Adding required fields and placeholders Accepting multiple entries Limiting uploads Handling focus changes Validating with regular expressions Working with older browsers Building jQuery validation Using server-side validation Sanitizing form input Uploading files Sending form data to a database