Forms Validation

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello there :)

I would like to validate http post (html form) data.

I've had a quick look at CGI::Validate (which seems quite dated) and CGI::Ex::Validate (which looks quite nice).

Before I spend several hours learning the chosen module and how I can implement it in my code, can anyone recommend which one I should use or, if there are other perhaps better ones out there ?

I will be processing input that will be going to an SQL database and I am aware of the dangers of injection and XSS.

Many thanks and have a nice day :)

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Re: Forms Validation by Khen1950fx (Canon) on May 04, 2011 at 10:31 UTC
Take a look at Data::FormValidator::Constraints::HTTP. For example, to validate POST: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::FormValidator; use Data::FormValidator::Constraints::HTTP qw( POST ); BEGIN { my %profile = ( required => [ qw( method ) ], constraint_methods => { method => POST, }, ); my $results = Data::FormValidator->check( { method => 'POST' }, \%profile ); }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Forms Validation by andreas1234567 (Vicar) on May 04, 2011 at 13:06 UTC
Take a look at Params::Validate. -- No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now, remember, you've probably only seen the tip of them. [1]	[reply]
Re: Forms Validation by stonecolddevin (Parson) on May 04, 2011 at 16:45 UTC
I highly recommend Data::Manager Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're god damn right I'm living in the fucking past	[reply]