Topic: If it has alphabetic

[egturnkey]

Hello friends,

If we have the following

$manal = "hate1";

i wanna say if $manal has alphabetic letters ( not only digits ) then show something else then show anything


if xxxxxxxx {
  echo 'something';
} else {
echo 'anything';
}


xxxxxx is the part i can't write, it want it means if $manal has letter and not digits

hope you got what i mean,

thanks so much

[JAY6390]

if(!preg_match('/^\d+$/', $manal) {
 ...
}

[Mchl]

^\d will accept also non-letter characters.

Code: [Select]

if(!preg_match('/[a-zA-Z]+$/', $manal) {
 ...
}

[The Little Guy]

Is this what your looking for?

Code: [Select]

<?php
$strings = array('AbCd1zyZ9', 'foo!#$bar');
foreach ($strings as $testcase) {
    if (ctype_alnum($testcase)) {
        echo "The string $testcase consists of all letters or digits.\n";
    } else {
        echo "The string $testcase does not consist of all letters or digits.\n";
    }
}
?>

[Mchl]

@TLG: If anything, it seems he wants ctype_alpha()

[JAY6390]

The regex option seems a lot simpler to me lol

[The Little Guy]

@TLG: If anything, it seems he wants ctype_alpha()

When I read his post, it just sounded like he wanted numbers and letters, maybe i was wrong...

[Mchl]

Yeah... he writes basically two different thing in two places.