Thank you guys,
The answers you gave me not only solved the problem,
but i included more characters like space and -.
Thank you again
--- Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, March 4, 2008 1:19 pm, Adil Drissi wrote:
> > Is there any way to limit the user to a set of
> characters for example
> > say i want my user to enter any character between
> a and z (case
> > insensitive). And if the user enters just one
> letter not belonging to
> > [a-z], this will not be accepted.
> >
> > I tried eregi('[a-z]', $fname) but this allows
> the user to enter
> > abdg4512kdkdk for example.
>
> What you tried only requires ONE a-z character
> somewhere in the input.
>
> Try this:
>
> preg_match('^[a-z]+$', $fname);
>
> This will:
> ^ "anchor" the string at the beginning
> [a-z]+ a to z, with at least one letter
> $ "anchor" the string at the end
>
> Note, however, that some people have other
> characters in their first
> name, such as apostrophe, space, and dash.
>
> Oh, and the digit 3, for "bo3b" who was a programmer
> on the first
> Apple Macintosh. His parents were hippies, and that
> really is his
> name...
>
> You may want to obtain a LARGE list of "first names"
> and run them
> through your validator as a test.
>
> --
> Some people have a "gift" link here.
> Know what I want?
> I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist.
> http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch
> Yeah, I get a buck. So?
>
>
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