: New to website form validation I'm new to form validation and I have been lucky over the years. I would like to update my method of form creation in my sites. I was curious to know what

@Jessie594

The linked article is from 2009. Since then some improvements have been made in regards to form validation. One being that HTML 5 already has built-in form validation, but fails in older browsers with no HTML 5 support.

Of course there are javascript libraries which helps you with the validation part like:

Parsley.js (Javascript) or
jQuery Validation Engine (Javascript) or
Validation (PHP)

I suggest you take a look on the different implementation methods and what you can do with them.

For Spam checking, well, that's another story. There aren't very good standalone libraries which are any good (at least not in my experience). Of course, you could always go with integrating the pretty awesome Akismet to detect spam after form submission or integrate some third-party services like reCAPTCHA.

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