[PHP] Compare Case Insensitive?

2004-04-08 Thread Jeff Oien
How can I compare a variable submitted by a form as case insensitive? A promotional code will be entered into a form and it's important that they can enter the code either way. So if I have if ($code == 'ABC123') { I want that to match 'aBC123' 'abc123' or whatever. Thanks. Jeff -- PHP General

RE: [PHP] Compare Case Insensitive?

2004-04-08 Thread Dave Avent
if (strtolower($code) == 'abc123') { or if (strtoupper($code) == 'ABC123') { -Original Message- From: Jeff Oien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 April 2004 4:21 PM To: PHP Subject: [PHP] Compare Case Insensitive? How can I compare a variable submitted by a form as case insensitive

Re: [PHP] Compare Case Insensitive?

2004-04-08 Thread Richard Harb
let's see: eregi() preg_match() strtolower() ... either one could help you probably fastest is convert the user string to lower case and compare ... or upper case .. your choice. Damn. so many options. Thursday, April 8, 2004, 5:21:15 PM, you wrote: How can I compare a variable submitted by a

Re: [PHP] Compare Case Insensitive?

2004-04-08 Thread Ryan Gibson
You could set your input string to upper case, then make all your comparisons in upper case http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtoupper.php On 8/4/04 4:21 pm, Jeff Oien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I compare a variable submitted by a form as case insensitive? A promotional code will

Re: [PHP] Compare Case Insensitive?

2004-04-08 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Jeff Oien [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I compare a variable submitted by a form as case insensitive? A promotional code will be entered into a form and it's important that they can enter the code either way. strcasecmp(): http://us2.php.net/strcasecmp or strtoupper($string) == 'ABC123'