On Feb 26, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Cliff Hirsch wrote:
I have been validating textareas using ctype_print; however, I am starting to get user errors. It’s amazing how many people cut and paste from MS Word. So what appears to be simple text and a reasonably valid string actually contains stuff that ctype_print does not like.Does anyone use this function? Any better ideas for validating general text areas? Just use the php filter function sanitizing control characters? Other ideas for validation and dealing with cut ‘n paste user input?
Are you using utf-8 encoding? What do you need to validate/sanitize with the textareas? That the input is using the correct character set? Need to strip html from it? I've had pretty good luck with using utf-8 and having text cut and pasted from MS Word come through fine.
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