In this simple program it will ask the user to enter a value in feet and then it will convert to its meters equivalent using PHP as our programming language. I also added validation function to check if the text field is empty or not and if the user give not a numeric value it will display an error message to the user informing that the value must be numeric in nature.
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Program Listing
<html>
<title> FEET TO METERS SOLVER </title>
<style>
body {
font-size:20px;
font-family:arial;
color:blue;
}
</style>
<?php
error_reporting(0);
$values = $_POST['value'];
// function to solve convert feet to meters
function feet_to_meters($variable) {
return($variable * 0.3048);
}
if(isset($_POST['check'])) {
if (ctype_alpha($values)) {
echo "<script>";
echo "alert('PLEASE ENTER A NUMERIC VALUE.');";
echo "</script>";
$values="";
}
else if(preg_match('#[^a-zA-Z0-9]#', $values)) {
echo "<script>";
echo "alert('PLEASE ENTER A NUMERIC VALUE.');";
echo "</script>";
$values="";
}
else if ($values=="") {
echo "<script>";
echo "alert('It Cannot Be Empty!!! Please enter a integer value.');";
echo "</script>";
$values="";
}
else {
$title = "The equivalent value of ".$values." Feet(s) is "
.feet_to_meters($values)." Meter(s).";
}
}
if(isset($_POST['clear'])) {
$values=" ";
$title=" ";
}
?>
<body style='background-color:lightgreen'>
<div style='width:800px;margin:auto'>
<br> <h1 align="center"> FEET TO METERS SOLVER </h2>
<br>
<form action="" method="post">
Enter a Number : <input type="text" name="value" value="<?php echo $values; ?>" autofocus size=20/>
<input type="submit" name="check" value="Convert To Meters"
title="Click here to convert to meters equivalent."/>
<input type="submit" name="clear" value="Clear"
title="Click here to clear text box and values on the screen"/>
</form>
<br>
<?php
echo $title;
?>
</body>
</html>
