Php checking for illeagle chars

[Anon]

Hi,

Just wondering if you know how to check whether a string contains 'forbidden' characters or not?

So say the string $name is supplied, and I need to verify that the characters ':/-' aren't in it, what is the fastest way of doing this?

Thanx..

[Anon]

Try using stristr.

-Ben

[Anon]

strstr() looks for one string inside another. If (as I thought
was meant) you want to detect any occurance of any of
the disallowed chars, something using a regex would be
more to the point, e.g.

  if ( ereg( '[:/\-]', $string ))
    echo "forbidden!";

Just in case the above doesn't work because of the backslashes,
that's a colon, forward slash, 2 backslashes (escape for a literal
backslash) and backslash-dash.