be careful. don't just check if the field is NON empty. that's not good enough.
in English, you can reasonably assume the following to be true about names: - must contain at least 1 letter [A-Za-z] - may contain ' (apostrephe) and - (dash) and (space) - shouldn't be longer than 40 characters. - should not contain #s, or any other symbol, especially < (so ppl don't start entering html codes, js, etc) Konstantin On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM, David Krings <ram...@gmx.net> wrote: > Yogesh Agashe wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> >> This is my first post to this NYPHP mailing list. So hello to everyone and >> thanks for the thorough discussions which help a beginner developer like me. >> > > Welcome, was the same with me, except that I never really left beginner > stage. > > > > > Is there any other way to validate first and last names. It will be nice > >> to have have inbuilt function for such commonly used field types. I will >> like to know how people tackle these issue. >> Thanks. >> >> > The only thing I would check is that the fields are not empty. The maximum > length is set via the maxlength parameter in HTML and everything else > qualifies as a valid name. I don't think you can reasonably script > validation to make sure that the first name entered is "Dirk" and not > "Dork". > > David > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation >
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