Project 1 - Globitek CMS

Time spent: 4 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following required functionality is completed:

1. [✔] Required: Create a Users Table

• [✔] Required: Use the command line to connect to the database "globitek".
• [✔] Required: Define a table "users" with the required columns.

2. [✔] Required: Create a Page with an HTML Form

• [✔] Required: It has required text inputs.
• [✔] Required: It submits to itself.
• [✔] Required: It looks correct in a browser.

3. [✔] Required: Detect when the form is submitted.

• [✔] Required: When page loads, page displays the form.
• [✔] Required: When form submits, page retrieves the form data.

4. [✔] Required: Validate form data.

• [✔] Required: Require the provided validation functions library.
• [✔] Required: Validate the presence of all form values.
• [✔] Required: Validate that no values are longer than 255 characters.
• [✔] Required: Validate that first_name and last_name have at least 2 characters.
• [✔] Required: Validate that username has at least 8 characters.
• [✔] Required: Validate that email contains a "@".

5. [✔] Required: Display form errors if any validations fail.

• [✔] Required: Do not submit the data to the database.
• [✔] Required: Redisplay the form with the submitted values filled in.
• [✔] Required: Report all errors as a list above the form.
• [✔] Required: Test each field to ensure you get the expected errors.

6. [✔] Required: Submit successfully-validated form values to the database.

• [✔] Required: Write an SQL insert statement.
• [✔] Required: Add current date and time to "created_at".
• [✔] Required: Follow best practices regarding the query result and database connection.
• [✔] Required: Use the command line to check the records.

7. [✔] Required: Redirect the user to a confirmation page.

   • [✔] Required: Locate the page "public/registration_success.php".
   • [✔] Required: Redirect the user to the new page. (Tips)

8. [✔] Required: Sanitize all dynamic output for HTML. (Tips)

The following advanced user stories are optional:

• Bonus 1: Validate that form values contain only whitelisted characters.

• Bonus 2: Validate the uniqueness of the username.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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