I’m new to php n’ doing some form verification stuff. So I came across this preg function and used it. But it issues "Function ereg() is deprecated " error. and in PHP manual it says that we can use preg() instead of ereg(). But I don’t understand what is says and it seems really difficult. please help me to solve this. this is a part of my code which use ereg().
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if (ereg(’^[A-Z][- a-zA-Z]+$’,$var)) {
$valid = true;
}
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Please kindly help me
I adjusted the pattern to work with preg_match (added delimiters), added a $var=‘John Doe’ for testing and echo the true or false to verify. You can remove the echo’s if you need to.
Basically this will return true if the value of $var begins with a capital letter followed by a {space} a {dash} or a upper or lower case letter.
Example:
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$var = ‘John Doe’;
if (preg_match(’~^[A-Z][- a-zA-Z]+$~’,$var)) {
$valid = true;
echo ‘true’;
} else {
echo ‘false’;
}
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Hope this helps.
Thank you so much dear friend , I was looking all over for get an answer for this and here you are. Thanks again for your kind reply