Hi!
no it dose not work!
now it even not accepts kaab ?
for the space, what i mean is that the user won't insert space only !
>From: jaydub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: kaab kaoutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [PHP] form validation :ereg ()
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:21:09 -0800 (PST)
>
>The patter will allow numbers because we didn't
>explicitly put numbers in the charachter clas.
>
>To avoid allowing numbers, add in '0-9' to the
>beginning of the bracketed expression:
>
>[^0-9a-zA-z.....] etc
>
>to disallow spaces at the beginning, the easiest
>thing is to trim the input.
>
>so, if you have a posted variable with the
>value: ' myname', then reassign the variable
>like: $name = trim($name);
>
>this will removed leading and trailing spaces.
>
>Jeff
>
>
>
>
>=> 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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