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8.6

Does the validate url method still exist inside PEAR?

Asked by mickeden in PHP Scripting Language

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Hi experts
I'm currently trying to get my head round OOP, using the Sitepoint book The PHP Anthology. Part of the book deals with PEAR and one of the examples I'm playing with(code posted below)  generates this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Validate::url() in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\websites\sandbox\sitepoint\phpant2-download\code_archive\chapter_03\examples\pear_validate.php_phpd_tmp21.php on line 33
I've trawled the PEAR site and the only reference i can find to this method is dated in 2002, and no reference to a typo is to be found on the book errata site. Can any body tell me if I've got a problem with my PEAR installation or if the book is wrong...if i change url to uri (in the call) the error is not generated - but neither does it validate a url properly)


Any advice would be much appreciated
regards
Mick
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<?php
// to remove the E_STRICT errors created by PEAR::Validate
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// Include Magic Quotes stripping script
require_once 'strip_quotes.php';
// Include PEAR::Validate
require_once 'Validate.php';
 
// Initialize errors array
$errors = array('name' => '', 'email' => '', 'url' => '');
// If the form is submitted...
if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
  // Define the options for formatting the name field
  $name_options = array(
      'format'     => VALIDATE_ALPHA . VALIDATE_SPACE,
      'min_length' => 5
  );
 
  // Validate name
  if (!Validate::string($_POST['name'], $name_options))
  {
    $errors['name'] = ' class="error"';
  }
 
  // Validate email
  if (!Validate::email($_POST['email']))
  {
    $errors['email'] = ' class="error"';
  }
 
  // Validate url
  if (!Validate::url($_POST['url']))
  {
    $errors['url'] = ' class="error"';
  }
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>PEAR::Validator</title>
    <style type="text/css">
      form.userinfo {
        font-family: verdana;
        font-size: 12px;
        width: 30em;
      }
 
      form.userinfo h1 {
        font-weight: bold;
        font-size: 12px;
      }
 
      form.userinfo div {
        clear: both;
        margin: 5px 10px;
      }
 
      form.userinfo label {
        float: left;
      }
 
      form.userinfo span {
        float: right;
      }
 
      .error {
        color: red;
        font-weight: bold;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form class="userinfo" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']; ?>" method="post">
      <?php
        $name = isset($_POST['name']) ? $_POST['name'] : '';
        $email = isset($_POST['email']) ? $_POST['email'] : '';
        $url = isset($_POST['url']) ? $_POST['url'] : '';
      ?>
      <h1>Enter your details</h1>
      <div>
        <label<?php echo $errors['name']; ?>>Name:</label>
        <span>
          <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $name; ?>" />
        </span>
      </div>
      <div>
        <label<?php echo $errors['email']; ?>>Email:</label>
        <span>
          <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo $email; ?>" />
        </span>
      </div>
      <div>
        <label<?php echo $errors['url']; ?>>Website:</label>
        <span>
          <input type="text" name="url" value="<?php echo $url; ?>" />
        </span>
      </div>
      <div>
        <span>
          <input type="submit" name="submit" value="send" />
        </span>
      </div>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>
 
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