Test your knowledge of PHP forms with this quiz! Answer questions related to form handling, validation, and submission techniques in PHP.
Question 1
What is the purpose of the action
attribute in a form?
To specify the method of data submission
To define the form elements
To specify the URL where the form data will be sent
To prevent data submission
Question 2
What does the method="post"
attribute indicate in a form?
Data is displayed in the URL
Data is hidden in the background
The form does not submit any data
Data is stored in cookies
Question 3
What is the significance of the required
attribute in form inputs?
It ensures the form is secure
It ensures that a user must fill out a form field before submitting the form
It validates the data format
It specifies the form action URL
Question 4
How does PHP handle errors when form data is missing?
It automatically retries form submission
It ignores the missing data
It displays error messages when the necessary fields are empty
It stores empty data in a session
Question 5
Why is data sanitization important in PHP form handling?
To improve form submission speed
To ensure that the data is cleaned of harmful content like HTML or JavaScript
To make the data look pretty
To compress the data
Question 6
How do you handle form validation in PHP?
By using JavaScript only
By checking if the data matches the expected formats using if
statements
By using only HTML validation
By storing the data in a database
Question 7
What does the htmlspecialchars()
function do in PHP?
Encodes HTML tags
Prevents XSS attacks by converting special characters
Validates email input
Encrypts form data
Question 8
How does the $_POST
Superglobal function in PHP?
It retrieves data from the URL
It sends form data to the browser
It retrieves form data submitted through the POST method
It stores session data
Question 9
What does the $_REQUEST
superglobal variable do in PHP?
It retrieves data from cookies
It retrieves form data from both GET and POST
It retrieves only POST data
It retrieves session data
Question 10
Which PHP function is commonly used to check if a form field is empty?
empty()
isset()
is_null()
notempty()
There are 10 questions to complete.