Form Validation Help...

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Hello. I have a form, but there are four fields that don't validate correctly. In the Position, Company, and Address fields, I want the visitor to be able to enter letters, numbers, spaces, and hyphens. In the Telephone field, I want them to only be able to enter numbers and spaces. Here is the code I have so far:

if (ereg("[^[:alpha:]]", $position) || strlen($position) == 0) {$errormsg .= "<font color=\"#CC0000\" face=\"Verdana\"><b>You must enter your Position.</b></font><br>";}

if (ereg("[^[:alnum:]]", $company) || strlen($company) == 0) {$errormsg .= "<font color=\"#CC0000\" face=\"Verdana\"><b>You must enter your Company.</b></font><br>";}

if (ereg("[^[:alnum:]]", $address) || strlen($company) == 0) {$errormsg .= "<font color=\"#CC0000\" face=\"Verdana\"><b>You must enter your Address.</b></font><br>";}

if (ereg("[^[:digit:]]", $telephone) || strlen($telephone) == 0) {$errormsg .= "<font color=\"#CC0000\" face=\"Verdana\"><b>You must enter a valid Telephone Number.</b></font><br>";}

Any help with this will be appreciated. Thanks.

[thoand]

Not that into RegExp but, this site have a lot of templates:
http://www.regxlib.com/Default.aspx

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best regards
Thomas

[Cyndi_Newbie]

In the above regular expr. you are matching only on a single character i.e you need to specify how many times it is going to occur. you forgot to mark the end($) of the reg.expression.

For Position it wud be something like this:

"^[a-zA-Z]+$" or "^{[a-zA-Z]{5,10}$"}

you can also specify the constraint on the length {min,max}

for further info:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/1324.htm
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3

Hopefully thats what u were asking for
good luck