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PHP Select Box Validation: Validate an option of a select input with its HTML

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selectbox-validator 1.0.0The PHP License5HTML, PHP 5, Validation, Parsers
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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.

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All the applications that generate HTML for the forms they present to their users know what are the valid options that the users may pick for select inputs.

However, when the applications use HTML for select input provided from other sources, the list of valid options depends on other applications that generated the HTML for the form.

This class provides a solution for validating forms with select inputs that are displayed using HTML provided by third-party applications that consist in parsing the HTML of the form select input to extract the list of valid options.

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Example

<?php
   
require_once "selectbox_validator.php";
   
$check = new selectbox_validator();
   
// better to minify this selectbox html
   
$selectboxhtml='<select><option value="AF">Afghanistan</option><option value="AX">Åland Islands</option><option value="AL">Albania</option><option value="DZ">Algeria</option><option value="AS">American Samoa</option><option value="AD">Andorra</option><option value="AO">Angola</option><option value="AI">Anguilla</option><option value="AQ">Antarctica</option><option value="AG">Antigua and Barbuda</option><option value="AR">Argentina</option><option value="AM">Armenia</option><option value="AW">Aruba</option><option value="AU">Australia</option><option value="AT">Austria</option><option value="AZ">Azerbaijan</option><option value="BS">Bahamas</option><option value="BH">Bahrain</option><option value="BD">Bangladesh</option><option value="BB">Barbados</option><option value="BY">Belarus</option><option value="BE">Belgium</option><option value="BZ">Belize</option><option value="BJ">Benin</option><option value="BM">Bermuda</option><option value="BT">Bhutan</option><option value="BO">Bolivia, Plurinational State of</option><option value="BQ">Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba</option><option value="BA">Bosnia and Herzegovina</option><option value="BW">Botswana</option><option value="BV">Bouvet Island</option><option value="BR">Brazil</option><option value="IO">British Indian Ocean Territory</option><option value="BN">Brunei Darussalam</option><option value="BG">Bulgaria</option><option value="BF">Burkina Faso</option><option value="BI">Burundi</option><option value="KH">Cambodia</option><option value="CM">Cameroon</option><option value="CA">Canada</option><option value="CV">Cape Verde</option><option value="KY">Cayman Islands</option><option value="CF">Central African Republic</option><option value="TD">Chad</option><option value="CL">Chile</option><option value="CN">China</option><option value="CX">Christmas Island</option><option value="CC">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</option><option value="CO">Colombia</option><option value="KM">Comoros</option><option value="CG">Congo</option><option value="CD">Congo, the Democratic Republic of the</option><option value="CK">Cook Islands</option><option value="CR">Costa Rica</option><option value="CI">Côte dIvoire</option><option value="HR">Croatia</option><option value="CU">Cuba</option><option value="CW">Curaçao</option><option value="CY">Cyprus</option><option value="CZ">Czech Republic</option><option value="DK">Denmark</option><option value="DJ">Djibouti</option><option value="DM">Dominica</option><option value="DO">Dominican Republic</option><option value="EC">Ecuador</option><option value="EG">Egypt</option><option value="SV">El Salvador</option><option value="GQ">Equatorial Guinea</option><option value="ER">Eritrea</option><option value="EE">Estonia</option><option value="ET">Ethiopia</option><option value="FK">Falkland Islands (Malvinas)</option><option value="FO">Faroe Islands</option><option value="FJ">Fiji</option><option value="FI">Finland</option><option value="FR">France</option><option value="GF">French Guiana</option><option value="PF">French Polynesia</option><option value="TF">French Southern Territories</option><option value="GA">Gabon</option><option value="GM">Gambia</option><option value="GE">Georgia</option><option value="DE">Germany</option><option value="GH">Ghana</option><option value="GI">Gibraltar</option><option value="GR">Greece</option><option value="GL">Greenland</option><option value="GD">Grenada</option><option value="GP">Guadeloupe</option><option value="GU">Guam</option><option value="GT">Guatemala</option><option value="GG">Guernsey</option><option value="GN">Guinea</option><option value="GW">Guinea-Bissau</option><option value="GY">Guyana</option><option value="HT">Haiti</option><option value="HM">Heard Island and McDonald Islands</option><option value="VA">Holy See (Vatican City State)</option><option value="HN">Honduras</option><option value="HK">Hong Kong</option><option value="HU">Hungary</option><option value="IS">Iceland</option><option value="IN">India</option><option value="ID">Indonesia</option><option value="IR">Iran, Islamic Republic of</option><option value="IQ">Iraq</option><option value="IE">Ireland</option><option value="IM">Isle of Man</option><option value="IL">Israel</option><option value="IT">Italy</option><option value="JM">Jamaica</option><option value="JP">Japan</option><option value="JE">Jersey</option><option value="JO">Jordan</option><option value="KZ">Kazakhstan</option><option value="KE">Kenya</option><option value="KI">Kiribati</option><option value="KP">Korea, Democratic Peoples Republic of</option><option value="KR">Korea, Republic of</option><option value="KW">Kuwait</option><option value="KG">Kyrgyzstan</option><option value="LA">Lao Peoples Democratic Republic</option><option value="LV">Latvia</option><option value="LB">Lebanon</option><option value="LS">Lesotho</option><option value="LR">Liberia</option><option value="LY">Libya</option><option value="LI">Liechtenstein</option><option value="LT">Lithuania</option><option value="LU">Luxembourg</option><option value="MO">Macao</option><option value="MK">Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of</option><option value="MG">Madagascar</option><option value="MW">Malawi</option><option value="MY">Malaysia</option><option value="MV">Maldives</option><option value="ML">Mali</option><option value="MT">Malta</option><option value="MH">Marshall Islands</option><option value="MQ">Martinique</option><option value="MR">Mauritania</option><option value="MU">Mauritius</option><option value="YT">Mayotte</option><option value="MX">Mexico</option><option value="FM">Micronesia, Federated States of</option><option value="MD">Moldova, Republic of</option><option value="MC">Monaco</option><option value="MN">Mongolia</option><option value="ME">Montenegro</option><option value="MS">Montserrat</option><option value="MA">Morocco</option><option value="MZ">Mozambique</option><option value="MM">Myanmar</option><option value="NA">Namibia</option><option value="NR">Nauru</option><option value="NP">Nepal</option><option value="NL">Netherlands</option><option value="NC">New Caledonia</option><option value="NZ">New Zealand</option><option value="NI">Nicaragua</option><option value="NE">Niger</option><option value="NG">Nigeria</option><option value="NU">Niue</option><option value="NF">Norfolk Island</option><option value="MP">Northern Mariana Islands</option><option value="NO">Norway</option><option value="OM">Oman</option><option value="PK">Pakistan</option><option value="PW">Palau</option><option value="PS">Palestinian Territory, Occupied</option><option value="PA">Panama</option><option value="PG">Papua New Guinea</option><option value="PY">Paraguay</option><option value="PE">Peru</option><option value="PH">Philippines</option><option value="PN">Pitcairn</option><option value="PL">Poland</option><option value="PT">Portugal</option><option value="PR">Puerto Rico</option><option value="QA">Qatar</option><option value="RE">Réunion</option><option value="RO">Romania</option><option value="RU">Russian Federation</option><option value="RW">Rwanda</option><option value="BL">Saint Barthélemy</option><option value="SH">Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha</option><option value="KN">Saint Kitts and Nevis</option><option value="LC">Saint Lucia</option><option value="MF">Saint Martin (French part)</option><option value="PM">Saint Pierre and Miquelon</option><option value="VC">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</option><option value="WS">Samoa</option><option value="SM">San Marino</option><option value="ST">Sao Tome and Principe</option><option value="SA">Saudi Arabia</option><option value="SN">Senegal</option><option value="RS">Serbia</option><option value="SC">Seychelles</option><option value="SL">Sierra Leone</option><option value="SG">Singapore</option><option value="SX">Sint Maarten (Dutch part)</option><option value="SK">Slovakia</option><option value="SI">Slovenia</option><option value="SB">Solomon Islands</option><option value="SO">Somalia</option><option value="ZA">South Africa</option><option value="GS">South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</option><option value="SS">South Sudan</option><option value="ES">Spain</option><option value="LK">Sri Lanka</option><option value="SD">Sudan</option><option value="SR">Suriname</option><option value="SJ">Svalbard and Jan Mayen</option><option value="SZ">Swaziland</option><option value="SE">Sweden</option><option value="CH">Switzerland</option><option value="SY">Syrian Arab Republic</option><option value="TW">Taiwan, Province of China</option><option value="TJ">Tajikistan</option><option value="TZ">Tanzania, United Republic of</option><option value="TH">Thailand</option><option value="TL">Timor-Leste</option><option value="TG">Togo</option><option value="TK">Tokelau</option><option value="TO">Tonga</option><option value="TT">Trinidad and Tobago</option><option value="TN">Tunisia</option><option value="TR">Turkey</option><option value="TM">Turkmenistan</option><option value="TC">Turks and Caicos Islands</option><option value="TV">Tuvalu</option><option value="UG">Uganda</option><option value="UA">Ukraine</option><option value="AE">United Arab Emirates</option><option value="GB">United Kingdom</option><option value="US">United States</option><option value="UM">United States Minor Outlying Islands</option><option value="UY">Uruguay</option><option value="UZ">Uzbekistan</option><option value="VU">Vanuatu</option><option value="VE">Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of</option><option value="VN">Viet Nam</option><option value="VG">Virgin Islands, British</option><option value="VI">Virgin Islands, U.S.</option><option value="WF">Wallis and Futuna</option><option value="EH">Western Sahara</option><option value="YE">Yemen</option><option value="ZM">Zambia</option><option value="ZW">Zimbabwe</option></select>';
    if(
$check->checkinput($selectboxhtml,"IR")){
        echo
"found";
    }else{
        echo
"notfound";
    }
   
$check->toarray($selectboxhtml);
?>


Details

selectbox_validator

simple select box validator using select box html

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


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