RE: [PHP] I need a 'good password' validation routine.

> I'm looking for a simple function or so that will tell a user if they have > a "safer" password. Ideally it would check that they used letters & > numbers, upper/lower case, and mebbe at least one punctuation character. > This can be in JavaScript too if you don't have a PHP version. In fact JS > is almost preferred since that's how I validate a lot of the other fields. > Either way. I just want to avoid passwords like "pass1" and "secret" and > "daevid"... Use a PHP method. A javascript method is going to be useless since you'll have to check it again in PHP because people can disable/work around javascript. As for checking the password, just run it against a couple preg_matches to make sure it has [a-z], [A-Z], [0-9], etc... ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/