php code to validate alphanumeric string

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Try this

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

Answer 3

Code:

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

Explanation:

• [] => character class definition
• ^ => negate the class
• az => 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 AZ

Answer 4

我是regex的新手，但是我可以这样：

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