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<?php
$validate=array(
 'text'=>array(
 'label'=>'Your text',
 'required'=>true,
 'minlength'=>5,
 'maxlength'=>10,
 ),
 'contact[name]'=>array(
 'label'=>'Name',
 'required'=>true,
 'characters'=>'alpha',
 'minlength'=>2,
 'maxlength'=>20,
 ),
 'contact[email]'=>array(
 'label'=>'Email',
 'characters'=>'email',
 ),
 'contact[password]'=>array(
 'label'=>'The password',
 'characters'=>'alphanum',
 'minlength'=>6,
 'maxlength'=>32,
 'verify'=>'repeat',
 ),
 'anythingbut'=>array(
 'label'=>'Anything',
 'not'=>1,
 )
 
 );
 include('Validation.php');
 $valid=true;
 if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST')
 $valid=Validation::set($validate,true);//setting to true will break after a single error.  false will put all errors into an array.
 ?>
 
 
 
 <!-- form method can be post or get, php uses the $_REQUEST variable to access the data -->
 <?php if(!$valid){
 echo implode(" ",Validation::getErrors ());
 }else if($valid && $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST'){
 echo 'Looks good!<br/>';
 }
 ?>
 
 <form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
 Text:<textarea name="text"><?php echo isset($_POST['text'])?$_POST['text']:'';?></textarea><br/>
 Name:<input type="text" name="contact[name]" value="<?php echo isset($_POST['contact']['name'])?$_POST['contact']['name']:'';?>"/><br/>
 Email:<input type="text" name="contact[email]" value="<?php echo isset($_POST['contact']['email'])?$_POST['contact']['email']:'';?>" /><br/>
 Password:<input type="password" name="contact[password]" /><br/>
 Repeat:<input type="password" name="repeat" /><br/>
 Anything but 1:<input type="text" name="anythingbut"  value="<?php echo isset($_POST['anythingbut'])?$_POST['anythingbut']:1;?>"/><br/>
 <input type="submit"/>
 </form>
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