note 52692 added to function.eregi

Say you want to validate a random sized string (at least one character though), and make sure it DOESN't contains anything BUT these characters: [:space:]a-zA-Z0-9_.- function valid_name($name) { // return FALSE if it contains characters which // which ARNT on the specified list if(ereg('[^[:space:]a-zA-Z0-9_.-]{1,}', $name)) { return false; } else { return true; } } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eregi.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+52692 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52692&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52692&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52692&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52692&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52692&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+52692&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php