oh and also allow for . (periods).... On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Konstantin K <kkru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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