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PHP Validation Filters

There are many filters for validation as below:

  • FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN – It validates Boolean value.

  • FILTER_VALIDATE_DOMAIN – It validates whether a domain name, label or length are valid.

  • FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL – It validates the value of an email address.

  • FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT -It validates value as float and can also convert to float.

  • FILTER_VALIDATE_INT – It validates value as Int and on success converts to int.

  • FILTER_VALIDATE_IP – It validates value as IP address

  • FILTER_VALIDATE_MAC – IT validates values as MAC address

  • FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP – It validates value against Perl compatible regular expression.

  • FILTER_VALIDATE_URL – It validates a URL.

If you want to know all the filter types, you can login to the below URL to get the complete list : http:php.net/manual/en/filters.filters.validate.php