Thanks for your suggestion! It turns out I was using the clean function of CakePHP's Sanitize class. It was doing something to my dashes :) One I moved that function AFTER my validation, everything worked great!
KS On Mar 8, 5:00 am, Graham Weldon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > Try escaping the hyphen: > > \- > > That should work out for you. > > Cheers, > > Graham Weldon > w.http://grahamweldon.com > e. [email protected] > p. +61 407 017 293 > > On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:02:58 -0800 (PST), KS <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > This might not be a cakePHP issue, but here goes... > > > I use CakePHP + WAMP on Windows. > > My problem is that whenever there is a dash in a pattern and an input > > string has a dash, no match occurs. > > As a result, validation fails (like the built in e-mail and phone > > number validations). > > > I have tried using a custom validation method with the following > > code: > > > function valid_phone($data) { > > $pattern = "^[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$"; > > $phone_no = trim($data['phone']); > > if (ereg($pattern, $phone_no)) > > return 1; > > else > > return 0; > > } > > > If I remove the dash from the pattern and input 7 digits, everything > > works fine. > > If I add the dash and input something like "123-45657", validation > > fails. > > > This is not the only pattern I've tried, all with the same results. > > > Any ideas? > > > Thank you! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
