Re: [PHP] scanning for non alpha characters

Reading your other post, I think what you REALLY want to do is throw away an variable that contains non-numeric values... Since you only want numbers, then everything else must be a mistake, or an attack. take the URL blah.php?foo=45&bah=hekygu if(in_numeric($_GET['foo'])) { // do stuff

Re: [PHP] scanning for non alpha characters

At 16:32 14.11.2002, CJ spoke out and said: [snip] >I want to scan the variables passed from teh url of my script for non alpha >characters. The variables should only consist of a-z A-Z 0-9 and spaces, >full stops and commas (Basically I don't want scripts t

[PHP] scanning for non alpha characters

I want to scan the variables passed from teh url of my script for non alpha characters. The variables should only consist of a-z A-Z 0-9 and spaces, full stops and commas (Basically I don't want scripts to be passed via the variable to the server) I've used perl a long time ago and its regular ex