Help in preg_match
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:15 am
here is my code:
when i enter a 2 letter word it echoes invalid
please help.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
if(preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z]$/",$name)){
echo $name;
}
else {
echo 'invalid';
}
?>
<form action="testing.php" method="post">
<p>
<input name="name" type="text" id="name" />
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
please help.