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Public Comment field - form validation regex help - El Forum - 08-24-2011
[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
Regex is admittedly one of my lacking areas. I am trying to create a validation rule for a "comment" field on a public form that only accepts:
1) Alphanumeric characters
2) Basic punctuation/symbols which only include .,?!#$%*()-+=;: and single and double quotes
3) Carriage Returns
I believe it is safer to not allow <> and &
Here is what I have put together from some examples on the net and my own. I've been testing it and it seems to work, but if there is anything I am missing or improvements I would sure appreciate any pointers.
Code:
return (preg_match("/[^\w\s\;\.\-\,\%\$\!\?\'\"\:\*\(\)\+\=\#]/iD", $str)) ? FALSE : TRUE;Thank you!
Edit: the code highlighter doesn't seem to like it and Zend Studio complains about it, but it still seems to work.