Hey everyone,

After almost reading everything on the web, including php.net - I can't find a script to help me allow spaces and/or regular characters in my text areas or text fields.

Can someone please help?

If I have: field1, field2, field3, etc.

I want to allow 0-9, a-z, A-Z, spaces, and /&+$*'"

I have been ripping my hair out with multiple tries with no avail.

Thanks,
xsfssg a.k.a. Chromedome

You've left the realm of PHP and entered into Regular expressions. Try this:

PHP Code:

// modify to allow/disallow any charachter you want
$pattern = "/([^ &\"'+$*a-zA-Z0-9])/";

if (preg_match($pattern, $text) ) {
   echo "invalid characters found";
} else {
   echo "all good";
} 


You can use http://www.quanetic.com/regex.php to test your regex patterns