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Validation, which is the process of checking to make sure form _______________ is OK before doing anything with it.

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Sending the _______________ should completely hinge on the data validation.

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Languages like _______________ can do clientside validation.

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PHP_______________ statement lets your code make decisions based on whether or not something is true.

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The heart of the if statement is its test _______________, which is always interpreted as either true or false.

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It’s quite common to use a _______________ as a test condition, which typically

involves comparing a variable to some value.

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Equality comparisons aren’t just for variables and strings. You can compare variables to numbers, variables to variables, and even perform _______________.

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There are two ways to check if things are not _______________: <> and!=.

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The_______________ than sign (>) checks to see if the value on the left is greater than the value on the right.

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The_______________ than sign (<) compares the value on the left to the value on the right.

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Greater than or equal to (>=) is like greater than (>) except it also results in true if the two values are ______________.

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Less than or equal to (<=) is _______________ to less than, except it’s also true if the values are equal.

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Yes, you can compare strings in _______________ test conditions. They work based on the alphabet, with a being considered smaller than (less than) z.

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Is a test condition the same thing we used to control while loops in Chapter 3?

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The _______________ function tests to see if a variable exists,

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Theempty() function takes things one step further and determines whether a variable contains an _______________ value.

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Isset() doesn’t show you the difference between a blank form field and a filled out one. The _______________ function checks to see if a variable is actually empty, which is what we need for form validation.

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The _______________ function is extremely valuable when you need to know if a piece of data exists.

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The _______________ operator (!) turns true into false, or false into true.

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PHP logic _______________ make it possible to structure more elegant if statements.

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Logical ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_______________ is coded as &&, while logical OR is coded as ||.

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The AND (&&) and OR (||) logical operators make it possible to structure much more powerful _______________ conditions that would otherwise require additional, often messy, if statements.

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Does it matter what order you put two conditions joined by && or || in an if statement?

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The _______________ clause starts right after the closing curly brace for the if statement.

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Just like the action code in an if, the code in an _______________ is enclosed in curly braces.

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The else clause _______________ code when an if test condition is false.

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It's always a good idea to simplify code whenever possible, especially _______________ code that gets too deep.

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You can close and open blocks of PHP code to output chunks of _______________ code in a PHP script.

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Use a _______________ variable known as a flag to keep track of whether or not we need to output the form.

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Setting _______________ to false initially means the form won't get shown unless there is a validation problem that causes its value to change.

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By making _______________ code dependent on an IF statement, we avoid duplicate code in our script.

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An HTML form that is part of the PHP script that processes it is known as _______________.

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Sticky _______________ remember the data the user has already correctly entered.

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The _______________ attribute of the <form> tag connects a form to the script that processes it.

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$_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] stores away the _______________ of the current script.

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The $_POST _______________ allows us to check and see if a form has been submitted.

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For a text area input field, we echo the sticky data in between the <textarea> and </textarea> _______________ instead of using the value attribute.

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It’s incredibly important for each row in a table to be _______________ identifiable, meaning that you can specifically access one row (and only that row!).

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We can use it to create a new column without having to drop the table and destroy its data.

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A _______________ key is a column in your table that makes each row unique.

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The_______________ loop is a special kind of loop designed specifically for cycling through values stored in an array.

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The _______________ loop takes an array and loops through each element in the array without the need for a test condition or loop counter.

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