On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John Holmes wrote: > I'd recommend putting your validation and formatting together, too. I > hate it when some people enter names into my database in all caps, and > some all lowercase. So in my validation routine, I make sure that the > name is only letters, (except for a possible ' for last names like > O'Reilly), and then do the formatting by making just the first letter > uppercase.
Some names (certain Dutch surnames come to mind) aren't spelled with an initial cap. > Same thing for phone numbers and social security numbers for example. > You can validate and accept the input in a variety of formats, but have > the validation routine return them in a common format to insert into the > database. Yup. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
