Hi!
thanks for the answer !
but for eregi("[^a-zA-Z[:space:]ëàéêêàäïüöûâç-]",$name);
it accespts also numbers hen i give kaab1 as input it accept it ? strange ?!
by the way how can i add the fact that the name should not start with space
?
thanks a lot !
>From: "Jeff Warrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [PHP] form validation :ereg ()
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:55:22 -0800
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "kaab kaoutar"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>If you wish to include a hyphen in the allowed character list of a
>pattern match, you must include it as the last character.
>
>So what you want should be more like:
>
>if (eregi("[^a-zA-Zëàéêêàäïüöûâç-]",$name)) {
> print("your name can't include non-letter, etc....");
>}
>
>You can add space with: [:space:] within the charachter
>class ([^a-zA-Z[:space:]ëàéêêàäïüöûâç-])
>
>Jeff
>
>
> > Hi again!
> >
> > I still did not fix my prob : I want to check, in a form, that the name
> > input may include an alphabetical letter a- z, A-Z, or a space, or -,
> > or à, or ä or ü etc how can i do that ? i used
> > ereg("([a-z,A-Z][ë,à]?)",$name) then
> > (!ereg("([a-z,A-Z,é,ê,è,ë,-,\t,à,ä,ï,ü,ö,û,â,ç])", $name))
> > i get the following warnin :REG_ERANGE:,invalid character range by the
> > way how to add space " " and "-" ?
> >
> > Please help!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
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