Space in a preg match function

[hotmodi]

Hi

How do i get space inside my preg match function?

if (!preg_match('/^[A-ZÆØÅa-zæøå]+$/', $facebook))

Google is no help today

[Atli]

Hey.

You just add a space. They have no special meaning inside a regular expression, and they are not parsed away like with the PHP code. If you want the regular expression to match a space, you just enter a space.

For example:
[code=php]<?php
$text = 'My name is Atli';
$regexp = '/^[a-z ]+$/i';

if(preg_match($ regexp, $text)) {
echo "Success!";
}
else {
echo "Failure!";
}
?>[/code]
This echoes "Success!".

Also note the "i" following the closing delimiter. This makes the match case-insensitive, removing the need to add both upper and lower case letters in the regular expression syntax. Either will match both.

[hotmodi]

Thanks that work great;)

So if I want the user to be able to write http://www.facebook.dk/joe.m

Should i then write the code like this.

[A-ZÆØÅa-zæøå0-9_-://]+[.]+[A-ZÆØÅa-zæøå]+[.]+[A-ZÆØÅa-zæøå0-9_-://.]

[Dormilich]

no need to make it overly complicated:

defined with the "i" modifyer
http://(?:[-\w]+\.){1,4}[a-z]{2,4}/[\w.]+

"http://" - obvious
"(?:)" - a non-capturing group
"[-\w]" - a hyphen or word character ([a-zA-Z0-9_])
"{min,max}" - at least [I]min[/I] times and at most [I]max[/I] times

PS. afaik, URLs allow only ASCII characters

[Atli]

PS. afaik, URLs allow only ASCII characters

That's not true anymore.

In 2003 the IDN (Internationali zed Domain Name) specification was released, allowing DNS servers to register names using most Unicode characters.

For backwards compatibility, they are still registered as ASCII strings, but client software compatible with IDNs should allow you to use non ASCII URLs and do the ASCII conversion in the background.
For example, the URL http://blaðið.is/ is registered as http://xn--blai-dqab.is/. Clicking the second one should work in all browsers, but the first one should only work in IDN capable browsers.

P.S.
I have no idea who's website that is. I just picked a random URL with non ASCII chars in it :P