gods_chief_pilot
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I have a form being validated in the following manner:\[code\]//Clear all variables$formCheck = '';$rep = '';$name = '';$department = '';$location = '';$email = '';$phone = '';$type = '';$drink = '';$notes = '';$lastVisited = '';$nextVisit = '';$clean_formCheck = '';$clean_rep = '';$clean_name = '';$clean_department = '';$clean_location = '';$clean_email = '';$clean_phone = '';$clean_type = '';$clean_drink = '';$clean_notes = '';$clean_lastVisited = '';$clean_nextVisit = '';function validateRep($rep){...some code...}$formCheck = $_POST["formCheck"];$rep = $_POST["rep"];$name = $_POST["name"];$department = $_POST["department"];$location = $_POST["location"];$email = $_POST["email"];$phone = $_POST["phone"];$type = $_POST["type"];$drink = $_POST["drink"];$notes = $_POST["notes"];$lastVisited = $_POST["lastVisited"];$nextVisit = $_POST["nextVisit"];if (validateRep($rep)){ $clean_rep = $rep;}else{ echo "Invalid Rep"; exit();}//.....and so on......\[/code\]I was wondering if it would be more efficient / cleaner to validate using an an array instead of individual variable? If so, how would I go about that, and how would I write the different validation functions all in one (eg. right now I have a separate function to validate each field), would it be possible with a loop through the array? i was experimenting and so far this is what I have:\[code\]$unclean['formCheck'] = $_POST["formCheck"];$unclean['rep'] = $_POST["rep"];$unclean['name'] = $_POST["name"];$unclean['department'] = $_POST["department"];$unclean['location'] = $_POST["location"];$unclean['email'] = $_POST["email"];$unclean['phone'] = $_POST["phone"];$unclean['type'] = $_POST["type"];$unclean['drink'] = $_POST["drink"];$unclean['notes'] = $_POST["notes"];$unclean['lastVisited'] = $_POST["lastVisited"];$unclean['nextVisit'] = $_POST["nextVisit"];$clean = array( 'rep', 'name', 'department', 'location', 'email', 'phone', 'type', 'drink', 'lastVisited', 'nextVisit',);\[/code\]but I'm not sure how to proceed from here.