Question

I have a contact page and I am having trouble with the php reading the Name* field as the 5 characters because I am saving space on my webpage by putting the Name* inside the text area to begin with. I have researched on google and I can’t find any code to help ignore those characters. The php I have is posted below.

if(!$name || strlen($name) < 5) {
    $error .= "Please enter your name.<br />";
}

So the problem I am running into is well maybe someone has a 3 letter name.

Answer 1

Here’s a tip: Don’t. Use a real label, don’t just dump the default text in the textbox. Besides, how does it save space?

<input type="text" name="name" value="Name*" />
Name*: <input type="text" name="name" />

Doesn’t make sense.

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If you must, just add || $name == "Name*" in there.