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jayant kumar
jayant kumar

Reputation: 333

php code to validate alphanumeric string

I want to validate alphanumeric string in form text box in php. It can contain numbers and special characters like '.' and '-' but the string should not contain only numbers and special characters. Please help with the code.

Upvotes: 20

Views: 55609

Answers (4)

Sankar V
Sankar V

Reputation: 4863

Try this

// Validate alphanumeric
if (preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z]+[a-zA-Z0-9._]+$/', $input)) {
    // Valid
} else {
    // Invalid
}

Upvotes: 24

Navneet Soni
Navneet Soni

Reputation: 41

Code:

if(preg_match('/[^a-z_\-0-9]/i', $string)) { echo "not valid string"; }

Explanation:

  • [] => character class definition
  • ^ => negate the class
  • a-z => chars from 'a' to 'z'
  • _ => underscore
  • - => hyphen '-' (You need to escape it)
  • 0-9 => numbers (from zero to nine)

The 'i' modifier at the end of the regex is for 'case-insensitive' if you don't put that you will need to add the upper case characters in the code before by doing A-Z

Upvotes: 3

Ravinder Payal
Ravinder Payal

Reputation: 3031

Use ctype_alnum like below: 

if(ctype_alnum($string)){
    echo "Yes, It's an alphanumeric string/text";
}
else{
    echo "No, It's not an alphanumeric string/text";
}

Read function specification on php.net

Upvotes: 35

rinchik
rinchik

Reputation: 2670

I'm sort of new to regex, but I would do it this way:

preg_match('/^[\w.-]+$/', input)

Upvotes: 1

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