Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

Chapter 17 Answers

Question 17-1

You can send a form for validation prior to submitting it by adding the JavaScript onSubmit method to the <form ...> tag. Make sure that your function returns true if the form is to be submitted and false otherwise.

Question 17-2

To match a string against a regular expression in JavaScript, use the test method.

Question 17-3

Regular expressions to match characters not in a word could be any of /[^\w]/, /[\W]/, /[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/, and so on.

Question 17-4

A regular expression to match either of the words fox or fix could be /f[oi]x/.

Question 17-5

A regular expression to match any single word followed by any non-word character could be /\w+\W/g.

Question 17-6

A JavaScript function using regular expressions to test whether the word fox exists in the string “The quick brown fox” could be:

document.write(/fox/.test("The quick brown fox"))

Question 17-7

A PHP function using a regular expression to replace all occurrences of the word the in “The cow jumps over the moon” with the word my could be:

$s=preg_replace("/the/i", "my", "The cow jumps over the moon");

Question 17-8

The HTML keyword used to precomplete form fields with a value is the value keyword, which is placed within an <input ...> tag and takes the form value="value".