SKULITECH ERP VALIDATION REPORT
Student Email, Numeric Fields and Date Picker Upgrade
Date: 2026-07-25

RESULTS
- PHP syntax: 210/210 files passed.
- Shared JavaScript form validation: passed Node.js syntax validation.
- Focused functional controls: 18/18 passed.
- Required email enabled for direct student registration, internal applications, public applications and bulk imports.
- Friendly duplicate email handling implemented; raw SQLSTATE errors are not shown.
- Failed student/application submissions retain entered values.
- Passwords, tokens, OTPs and hidden security values are excluded from retained form data.
- Numeric-only validation enabled for phone numbers, IDs, KCPE/KCSE index numbers and year of birth.
- Date/date-time fields use the shared browser date picker mechanism.
- Legacy empty student emails and IDs are normalized to NULL through the included migration.

DEPLOYMENT
1. Back up the database.
2. Replace the application files with this build.
3. Run database/migrations/2026_07_25_required_student_email_validation.sql once on an existing database.
4. Test one new student, one duplicate email, one invalid numeric field and one date field.
