selectbox_validator

simple select box validator using select box html.

This class can validate an option of a select input with its HTML. It can take the HTML used to display a form select input and parses it to check if a given option makes part of the defined options. The class can also extract the list of all available options and return an array with all the option values.

what is this ?

when you are using a long select box in your website for example country selectbox or city selectbox or any other static selectbox user can simple edit the value of a option and send it to the backend and create alot of problem . users can attack your website using this method. to fix this problem you need to check if user sended the value from the selectbox itself or not if you are creating the selectbox from database then you can check the values there but if you are not, you need to convert all of the values from selectbox to array and then check them with user input this class does this both for you , you just need to simply copy the selectbox html

how to use?

setup :

$check = new selectbox_validator();

check :

check user input with values in select box using select box html

$check->checkinput($selectboxhtml,$userinput);

• selectboxhtml : select box html for example :

  <select>
    <option value="IR">Iran</option>
  </select>

• userinput : user input to check

return : true if found , false if not found

convert :

simple convert select box values to array

$check->toarray($selectboxhtml);

• selectboxhtml : select box html for example :

  <select>
    <option value="IR">Iran</option>
  </select>

return : selext box values in array form that you can copy into php