Hi,
I made a little function that will allow allow "alphabetical character with
apostrophe then more alphabetical characters then hyphen then more
alphabetical characters (D'Agostino-Wong)". The downside is that it will
automatically cap "von Hollander-Smith"
function ucase_words($txt){
if(ereg("['-]", $txt)){
$txt = strtolower($txt);
$boom = explode("'", $txt);
foreach($boom as $key => $txt){
$boom[$key] = ucfirst($txt);
}
$booms = implode("'", $boom);
$boomer = explode("-", $booms);
foreach($boomer as $key => $booms){
$boomer[$key] = ucfirst($booms);
}
$boomers = implode("-", $boomer);
return($boomers);
}
else {
$txt = strtolower($txt);
$txt = ucwords($txt);
return($txt);
}
}
I suppose you could add an if-then test for the odd lowercase. It seems to
work well and covers most of the scenarios you listed. [Btw, it was my
'very-first-function' so go easy on me! :>]
Just my $0.01 worth,
Andre
On Thursday 27 March 2003 06:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thank you. Strip_slashes was the key. The following Regular
> Expression:
>
> (preg_match("/^[[:alpha:]]{2,}[-]?[[:alpha:]]+$|^[[:alpha:]]{2,}[[:space:]]
>?[[:alpha:]]+$|^[[:alpha:]]{1,1}[']?[[:alpha:]]+$/", $Last_Name)
>
> allows only alphabetical characters (e.g., Smith), alphabetical characters
> with whitespace then more alphabetical characters (e.g., Au Yong),
> alphabetical character with apostrophe then more alphabetical characters
> (e.g., O'Neal), or alphabetical characters with hyphen then more
> alphabetical characters (e.g., Zeta-Jones). It does not, however, allow
> alphabetical character with apostrophe then more alphabetical characters
> then hyphen then more alphabetical characters (D'Agostino-Wong),
> alphabetical characters with whitespace then more alphabetical characters
> then hyphen then more alphabetical characters (e.g., von Hollander-Smith),
> or alphabetical characters with whitespace then more alphabetical
> characters then hyphen then alphabetical character then apostrophe then
> more alphabetical characters (e.g, Van Horn-O'Reilly) or anything else
> anyone may type in or not type in.
>
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jennifer Goodie wrote:
> > This is what I use
> > $LastName = stripslashes($_POST['LastName']);
> > preg_match("/^\w+[\s\-\'\.\w]*$/i", $LastName)
> >
> > This is less strict than yours as I'm allowing whitespace, periods,
> > underscores, hyphens, apostrophes, and numbers because I don't so much
> > care if someone tacks on " Jr." or something like that to the end of
> > their name.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:05 PM
> > To: Jennifer Goodie
> > Cc: John W. Holmes; 'John Nichel'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [PHP] Form Validation: Surnames with Apostrophe
> >
> >
> >
> > When I do that:
> >
> > (preg_match("/^[a-z](\\')?[a-z-]+$/i",$_POST[Last_Name])
> >
> > it won't allow O'Reilly
> > and seems to not allow anything at all
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jennifer Goodie wrote:
> > > That is because it is not saying that is all that can be in the string.
> >
> > The
> >
> > > 'Re' matches that pattern. Put a ^ at the beginning to signify it must
> > > start with the pattern and a $ at the end to signify it must end there.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:19 PM
> > > To: John W. Holmes
> > > Cc: 'John Nichel'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: RE: [PHP] Form Validation: Surnames with Apostrophe
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I just tried your regexp:
> > >
> > > (preg_match("/[a-z](\\')?[a-z-]+/i",$_POST[Last_Name])
> > >
> > > and it allows the following:
> > >
> > > O' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > It seems to allow any number of characters and spaces between the O'
> > > and Re
> > >
> > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, John W. Holmes wrote:
> > > > > > preg_match ( "/[A-Za-z-']+/", $_POST['Last_Name'] );
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > > > I have been trying to validate a form field Last_Name and have
> > > >
> > > > been
> > > >
> > > > > unable
> > > > >
> > > > > > > to find a regexp to account for the apostrophe (e.g.,
> > > > > > > O'Reilly).
> > > >
> > > > The
> > > >
> > > > > > > following statement:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > preg_match('/^[[:alpha:]]+[-]?[[:alpha:]]+$/',
> > > > > > > $_POST[Last_Name])
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > accepts hyphenated surnames and I have tried escaping the
> > > >
> > > > apostrophe:
> > > > > > > [\\'] and [\\\'] to no avail. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
> > > > >
> > > > > that could work but the user may now submit one or more apostrophes
> > > > > as the Last Name.
> > > >
> > > > Watch out for magic_quotes. If "O'Reilly" is submitted, unless you
> > > > stripslash() it, you're validating against "O\'Relly".
> > > >
> > > > preg_match("/[a-z](\\')?[a-z-]+/i",$_POST['Last_Name'])
> > > >
> > > > ---John W. Holmes...
> > > >
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