FormValidator and Regular Expressions

[JQL]

The FormValidator has a section for ValidationType into which you can enter a Regular Expression. Being very "green" when it comes to Regular Expressions how would I enter the [:alnum:] regular expression into this field?

I've tried just entering [:alnum:] in the field but that doesn't work...

[405hp]

afaik alnum isn't anything in javascript.

how to: http://javascript.about.com/od/regul...xpressions.htm

[JQL]

[:alnum:] = [A-Za-z0-9] = Alphanumeric characters

So how do I use [A-Za-z0-9] in Validator ValidationType?

[405hp]

http://developer.berlios.de/forum/me...p?msg_id=16337

[apajax]

In my opinion there is a bug at all with regexp on line 219 in formvalidator.inc.php unit:

PHP Code:

  echo "obj.regexp=\"$regexp\";\n"; 


removing the double quotes makes javascript handling the regexp right, so the code on line 208 should be...

PHP Code:

                  if($regexp{0} == '/')
                    echo "obj.regexp=$regexp;\n";
                  else
                  {
                        switch($regexp)
                        {
                                case 'email': $regexp='JSVAL_RX_EMAIL'; break;
                                  case 'telephone':$regexp='JSVAL_RX_TEL'; break;
                                  case 'zip':$regexp='JSVAL_RX_ZIP'; break;
                                  case 'money':$regexp='JSVAL_RX_MONEY'; break;
                                  case 'creditcard':$regexp='JSVAL_RX_CREDITCARD'; break;
                                  case 'postalzip':$regexp='JSVAL_RX_POSTALZIP'; break;
                                  case 'postalcode':$regexp='JSVAL_RX_PC'; break;
                        }

                    echo "obj.regexp=\"$regexp\";\n";
                  } 


[405hp]

Looks right. Send your fix to support@qadram.com

BTW these are the built in reg expressions that it uses:

function _checkRegExp(regx,value){
switch(regx){
case "JSVAL_RX_EMAIL":
return((/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+([\.-]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*@[a-zA-Z0-9]+([\.-]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*(\.\w{2,5})+$/).test(value));
case "JSVAL_RX_TEL":
return((/^1?[\-]?\(?\d{3}\)?[\-]?\d{3}[\-]?\d{4}$/).test(value));
case "JSVAL_RX_PC":
return((/^[a-z]\d[a-z]?\d[a-z]\d$/i).test(value));
case "JSVAL_RX_ZIP":
return((/^\d{5}$/).test(value));
case "JSVAL_RX_MONEY":
return((/^\d+([\.]\d\d)?$/).test(value));
case "JSVAL_RX_CREDITCARD":
return(!isNaN(value));
case "JSVAL_RX_POSTALZIP":
if(value.length==6||value.length==7)
return((/^[a-zA-Z]\d[a-zA-Z] ?\d[a-zA-Z]\d$/).test(value));
if(value.length==5||value.length==10)
return((/^\d{5}(\-\d{4})?$/).test(value));
break;
default:
return(regx.test(value));
};

[JQL]

Many thanks apajax! That seems to have sorted it.

[homutke]

Originally Posted by 405hp

Looks right. Send your fix to support@qadram.com

BTW these are the built in reg expressions that it uses:

Problem RXMAIL?
How to work with names
test_test@test.com or A.test@test.com

[405hp]

Not sure I understand what you mean, but if so...

You could probably change the reg expression on the validator.

This is what I use for email validation:

                emailRe = /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*\.(\w{2}|(com|net|org|edu|int|mil|gov|arpa|biz|aero|name|coop|info|pro|museum))$/;

I made up a button to check yours vs both of the reg expressions and the test_test@ comes out false with the validator and true with the one I use.

              var value="A.test@test.com";
               //var value="test_test@test.com";
               alert((/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+([\.-]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*@[a-zA-Z0-9]+([\.-]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*(\.\w{2,5})+$/).test(value));
                emailRe = /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*\.(\w{2}|(com|net|org|edu|int|mil|gov|arpa|biz|aero|name|coop|info|pro|museum))$/;
                if (!emailRe.test(value))
                 {
                 alert(value + ' is invalid');
                 return(false);
                 }
                alert(emailRe.test(value));