[adsegzy]

Hello friends, i need my telephone field of my form to accept only numbers and not alphabets & other characters, how do i do that?

regards

[rallport]

I always used a jquery plugin - http://digitalbush.c...d-input-plugin/ - allows you put an input mask on fields.

However, this is only client side and you should be checking the input server side too.

[Wickham]

adsegzy, on 14 March 2010 - 03:45 PM, said:

Hello friends, i need my telephone field of my form to accept only numbers and not alphabets & other characters, how do i do that?

regards

This is what I used:-

# elseif(eregi('[^][0-9]' , $rating))
# {echo "<p>Please only use numbers 0 to 9 inclusive.<br>Use your back button to <span style=\"color: red;\">try again</span>.</p>";}

The elseif may be different, it depends on the format of your PHP code.

[^] means NOT so it's checking if the input is not a number, if so, it shows the error text.

I also see that eregi is deprecated http://php.net/manua...ction.eregi.php but is still useable until PHP 6 (not released yet) when another function will have to be used (but I'm not sure which).

[jnicol]

Wickham, on 14 March 2010 - 04:49 PM, said:

I also see that eregi is deprecated http://php.net/manua...ction.eregi.php but is still useable until PHP 6 (not released yet) when another function will have to be used (but I'm not sure which).

preg_match()

http://php.net/manua....preg-match.php