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[Konstantin K]

oh and also allow for . (periods)....

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Konstantin K <kkrutoi at 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
>
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> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM, David Krings <ramons at 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
>>
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