Don Don wrote:
Hi all, am trying to run a regular expression to a list of user entered data on some forms.
I've creating what i think is a matching pattern for each category as shown below:
function validateEntry($regularExpression, $fieldValue)
{
if(preg_match($regularExpression, $fieldValue))
{
return "true";
}
else
{
return "false";
}
}
is this all your function will ever do, or do you plan on extending it
later?
i made a list of rules that are passed into the function above
1) [a-zA-Z][0-9] //allow any characters and numbers together anywhere within the text
2) [a-zA-Z] //allow only any charaters in the text
3) [0-9]{2} //allow only digits and they must be 2 in length
4) [a-zA-Z]{1} //allow only 1 character either uppercase or lowercase
not sure how you are setting these up, but try something like this
$slpnum = '!^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$!';
$slpha = '!^[a-zA-Z]+$!';
$number = '!^[0-9]{2}$!';
$aplshort = '!^[a-zA-Z]{1}$!';
but each of these fail the validation when data is entered appropriately , seems iam getting something wrong.
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