note 55160 added to function.is-numeric

ishmaelmakitla at yahoo dot com: Simplier would be if you used regular expressions - it would look like this: <?php if(!ereg("^[\. a-zA-Z]{1,}$", $name)) die("Error: Name contains unallowed chars"); ?> See http://mirrors.inway.cz/manual/en/ref.regex.php Good REGEX reference: http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html Good luck. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-numeric.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+55160 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55160&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55160&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55160&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55160&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55160&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55160&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+55160&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php