I’m a bit confused how PHP can even be used to validate forms before submission in the first place. PHP is all server side and submission is done client side. The only time anyone has time to validate (unless using jquery) is on the server side right after submission, but by then it’ll be too late. You’ll already have submitted and so you can’t show an interactive message that there’s something wrong.

I think the better solution is to just use jquery but I hate how much of a headache it is so I was trying not to use it.

$username = $_POST['uname'];
$firstname = $_POST['fname'];
$lastname = $_POST['lname'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$password = md5($_POST['pswd']);
$confirmpassword = md5($_POST['confpswd']);
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$dateofbirth = $_POST['dob'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$state = $_POST['state'];
$postcode = $_POST['code'];
$country = $_POST['country'];

$insert = ‘INSERT INTO user_reg(id, uname, fname, lname, email, pswd, confpswd, phone, dob, address, city, state, code, country)
VALUES (“‘.$username.’”, “‘.$firstname.’”, “‘.$lastname.’”, “‘.$email.’”; “‘.$password.’”; “‘.$confirmpassword.’”; “‘.$phone.’”;
“‘.$dateofbirth.’”; “‘.$address.’”; “‘.$city.’”; “‘.$state.’”; “‘.$postcode.’”; “‘.$country.’”)’;

mysql_query($insert);