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phpDave 0 Junior Poster

14 Years Ago

Hi everyone,
I am trying to validate a user registration form. User must enter letters and/or letters only.

//check username
	$_POST['user_name'] = trim($_POST['user_name']);
	$checkChar ='/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/';
	if (!preg_match($checkChar, ($_POST['user_name']))); {
		$error['char'] = 'Username must contain letters or numbers only';
	}

When I submit the error message keeps coming up when it should not.
Any thoughts?

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phpDave 0 Junior Poster · Answer 1 · 2010-04-03T22:32:50+00:00

Sorry,
I had a semicolon at end of line ending statement.

vitana 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 2 · 2010-04-05T22:32:15+00:00

Hi everyone,
I am trying to validate a user registration form. User must enter letters and/or letters only.
//check username
	$_POST['user_name'] = trim($_POST['user_name']);
	$checkChar ='/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/';
	if (!preg_match($checkChar, ($_POST['user_name']))); {
		$error['char'] = 'Username must contain letters or numbers only';
	}
When I submit the error message keeps coming up when it should not.
Any thoughts?

I use following php code to validate i18n user name ($value)

if (preg_match('/[~!@#$%^&\*\(\)\+={}\[\]|\\:;"<>\?\/]/', $value))
			return new ValidationError($field, $value, "$field has unavailable symbols: $value");