> I need to filter out certain characters from being > stored in the database from our signup form. The > fields include first name, last name, street address, > city, zip, etc. > Question 1: What characters should be allowed, other > than lowercase, uppercase, digits, and the space > character?
Some names have ' or - in them, same for addresses. > Question 2: What is a regular expression for this? Yes...there is a regular expression for everything. :) Just come up with some functions that filter the input based on a few regex. You can display it with htmlentities() and it'll stop javascript and html from being evaluated. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php