Looking for a shorthand way of checking strlen for all text fields

[Mat30]

Is there a quicker and and less verbose way of checking a number of submitted post variables for a maximum string length?

I currently use a strlen rule for each variable, which happen to have the same max length, separated by and/or operators.

(I think that I have used the correct terms, but if not, please let me know if anything isn't clear).

[AnthonySterling]

Can you post your current solution?

[Waffles]

well you can set a maximum character size on the text fields first, but you could look in to

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
    // do whatever
 } 

[ScallioXTX]

What I mostly do is something like

$allValid = true;
$threshold = 255;
foreach($_POST as $var)
{
   $allValid = $allValid && ( strlen($var) < $threshold );
} 

The parentheses around strlen($var) < $threshold are not syntactically necessary but I like them for readability.

If you really want to know if all is good and stop as soon as one check fails you could also do

$allValid = true;
$threshold = 255;
foreach($_POST as $var)
{
   $allValid = $allValid && ( strlen($var) < $threshold );
   // stop checking if one if the variables is too long
   if (!$allValid) break;
} 

The break statement tells PHP to stop the foreach loop and go on with what's beneath it (in this example nothing, but you get the point).

If you want different thresholds for different variables you could do something like

$allValid = true;
// the next line is just an example of course
$checks = array('firstname' => 40, 'lastname' => 40, 'email' => 60);
foreach($checks as $var => $threshold)
{
   $allValid = $allValid && ( strlen($var) < $threshold );
} 

Hope that helps

PS. I guess you already know this, but
< means smaller than
<= means smaller than or equal to
Same goes for > and >=

[Mat30]

Thanks very much Scallio. That helps.

Thanks to Waffles too, but your example isn't clear to me.