My apologies, but I am just so frustrated right now. It seems my function doesn't work either (if that's even the problem, which at this time I just don't know). Somehow my variable is still getting a value, and I have no idea how. Even if I don't return anything it still gets a value. Basically this has just broken my whole site. If anyone can figure this out let me know, right now I just have to put this site up with no validation. Thanks > -----Original Message----- > From: Beauford > Sent: January 15, 2007 10:26 PM > To: 'PHP' > Subject: RE: I lied, another question / problem > > Does anyone have any idea to this problem? All the code is in > the emails I have written to the list. I have temporarily > solved the problem by writing my own function not using any > pregs, eregs, or any other regs and it works perfectly. It's > probably not considered good programming, but it works the > way it is supposed to. > > I would however like to know what the issue is with the > original code, or if this is actually a bug in PHP. > > Thanks > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Beauford [mailto:phpuser@xxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: January 15, 2007 7:22 PM > > To: 'PHP' > > Subject: RE: I lied, another question / problem > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: 'Roman Neuhauser' [mailto:neuhauser@xxxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: January 15, 2007 7:53 PM > > > To: Beauford > > > Cc: 'PHP' > > > Subject: Re: I lied, another question / problem > > > > > > # phpuser@xxxxxxxxxx / 2007-01-15 18:33:31 -0500: > > > > > From: Roman Neuhauser [mailto:neuhauser@xxxxxxxxxx] # > > > > > phpuser@xxxxxxxxxx / 2007-01-15 16:31:32 -0500: > > > > > > I have file which I use for validating which includes the > > > > > > following > > > > > > function: > > > > > > > > > > > > function invalidchar($strvalue) { > > > > > > if(!ereg("^[[:alpha:][:space:]\'-.]*$", $strvalue)) { > > > > > > > > > > That regexp matches if $strvalue consists of zero or more > > > ocurrences > > > > > of a letter, a whitespace character, and any character > > > whose numeric > > > > > value lies between the numeric values of "'" and "." in > > > your locale. > > > > > Zero or more means it also matches an empty string. > > > > > > > > I'm still confused. This works perfectly on my other two > > pages with > > > > the exact same code. So why is it only this one page that > > > is causing a problem? > > > > > > I don't know, I don't care. You have enough problems with > > the single > > > regex, let's concentrate on fixing this first. > > > > This certainly has a bearing. If the code works here then there is > > nothing wrong with the code. There is something else going on. > > > > > > If I enter the word "test" in my form, without the quotes, > > > then why is > > > > the fuction returning anything since this is a valid entry. > > > Should it > > > > not only return a value if there is a problem. > > > > > > I don't understand that paragraph. The regexp matches, and the > > > function returns *nothing* just as you programmed it. > > > That, of course, means that the variable you are assigning this > > > *nothing* gets set to *nothing*, which, in PHP lingo, is null. > > > > The problem is that it is returning *something*, and that's > what I am > > trying to figure out. > > > > If I put this in my code after I do the checking it works, but it > > should not work if the function is retuning *nothing*. > > So the original question remains, what is being returned and why? > > > > If($formerror) echo "Testing"; This will display Testing - > it should > > not display anything since nothing should be returned. > > > > > > > > > > > All I want to accomplish here is to allow the user to enter > > > a to z, A > > > > to Z, and /\'-_. and a space. Is there a better way to do this? > > > > > > 1. Do you really want to let them enter backslashes, or are > > you trying > > > to "escape" the apostrophe? > > > 2. Does that mean that "/\'-_." (without the quotes) and " > > " (that's > > > three spaces) are valid entries? > > > > Where do you see 3 spaces? In any event, I don't think this is the > > problem. > > As I have said the code works fine on two other pages, > which logically > > suggests that there is something on this page that is causing a > > problem. > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To > unsubscribe, visit: > > http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
