Field Validation

[abelajohnb]

Hello,

How would I prevent:

amnat2k

from being a valid name?

Obviously, a person does not have a numerical value in their name.

Anyway to throw an error on this one?

Thanks guys.

[kparker]

Obviously, a person does not have a numerical value in their name.

That's not obvious at all. On the other hand, if it's a rule you wish to impose on your "universe", it's pretty easy to come up with a regex that will do the trick:

if (eregi( '[a-z]+', $name ))
   {
   // proceed as usual
   }
else
   {
   echo "No, we don't need no ROBOTS here!"; *
   exit;
   }

[petrb]

You need to include periods, commas, spaces and dashes in name validation (not to mention upper case), and you may want to limit the number of characters -- use this:
$err = 0;
if (!$Last_Name) {
$ln=0;
$err=1;
} elseif ((!ereg("^[-a-zA-Z,. ]+$", $Name)) || ((strlen($Name) > 26))) {
$ln=0;
$err=1;
} else {
$ln=1;
}

--ph

[petrb]

Line 2 of course the var is like this:
if (!$Name) {

...missed that on my paste.

--ph