expression check problem

I want to validate:

NEW Sony's 3.0" L.C.D. - 12MP DIGITAL CAMERA/VIDEO/TOUCH SENSOR K38

Here is my expression:

$regex='/^[a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-\;\:\'\"\/ ]{5,95}$/';

PHP:

Please help

 

It's working.

 

you tired with:

preg_match?

 

problem is that my expression is not working for:

', ", /. \


any idea?

thank you

 

Yes, I tried this and it's working:

$regex='/^[a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-\;\:\'\"\/ ]{5,95}$/';

echo preg_match($regex, 'NEW Sony\'s 3.0" L.C.D. - 12MP DIGITAL CAMERA/VIDEO/TOUCH SENSOR K38');

PHP:

However, you don't have to escape all these characters. This is the same:

$regex = '/^[\w-\.;:\'"\/ ]{5,95}$/';

PHP:

Both work for me. (tested)

 

Well it works file but if if is post via form i gets problem. any solution to that, I also tired: htmlspecialchars and addslashes

Here is my code:

	$regex='/^[a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-\;\:\'\"\/ ]{5,95}$/';
	echo htmlspecialchars('NEW Sony\'s 3.0" L.C.D. - 12MP DIGITAL CAMERA/VIDEO/TOUCH SENSOR K38');exit;
	$txt = htmlspecialchars($_POST["textfield"]);
	echo $txt."<BR>";
	echo preg_match($regex, $txt);	

PHP:

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="test1.php">
  <input name="textfield" type="text" value="<?PHP echo $_POST["textfield"]; ?>" size="75" />
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Code (markup):