Busy — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:10:06 +0000

no worries

it's good to see the many ways of doing things, and learning from errors.

Everyday is a learning day **now if only my small brain would contain it all**

Suzanne — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:46:51 +0000

Ah, yes, thank you.

So, fixed. And I feel illuminated! Sorry for hijacking your thread in my quest to understand the world. heh.

Busy — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:50:30 +0000

kinda weird having a function named after you

the {6,} allows minimum of 6 numbers, change it to {6} for just 6

Quote: Busy
your trying to find (id='12345678')
Suzanne
You entered: 12345678
It should be not 6 numbers only. [12345678] is 8 characters long.
Suzanne No-Regs, No Strlen
You entered: 12345678
It should be 6 numbers only. [12345678] is 8 characters long.

Only because you have this line$suzchar == '6' && ereg("([0-9]{6,})' in suzanne function; suzchar == 6 but ereg >= 6
everything else seems to work ok on all three

Suzanne — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:04:09 +0000

I updated this. I'm getting varied results. Perhaps it's just me.

No, the problem seems to be that without strlen, the all numbers version is getting through even if more than 6 characters.

Busy — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:02:47 +0000

only difference to my version is I'm not using the $regs, nor the $_GET ($_POST in your sample) as the content is trimed and striped etc before being checked for length and numbers.
try just the number check without isset or globals

	if(ereg("^[0-9]{6,}$",$title))
	{
	 	$answer = " (id='".$title."')";
	}else{
                $answer = " (title like '%".$title."%')";
        }
         echo "your trying to find " .$answer;

' should work fine, is on mine, will only prove true if the number is 6+ numbers only, any letters included it proves false

Suzanne — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:53:58 +0000

I amended the demo to match that, Busy, it doesn't work for me?

Busy — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 05:11:20 +0000

if(ereg("^[0-9]{6,}$",$titled))
{
is numbers
}else{
isn't 6+ numbers
}

works, 6+ numbers only = true, numbers and letters = false

Busy — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 05:07:33 +0000

yeah sorted the 1-9 and 0-9 thing, but with the search, I want two options

one if looking for 'contains' will find cat, catch, catty, cathy ... but also want one that will find 'exact' matches only, search for 'cat' will find "cat" or "cat and dog", "smelly cat" etc.

problem i have is looking in db rows it will only find "cat", wont find anything else, like "cat and dog"

Suzanne — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 05:03:08 +0000

Mark, when I tried that I was getting false positive matches for things like abc123456xyz. ?

Mark Hensler — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:54:32 +0000

Busy wrote: sorted it out, (ereg("^[0-9]{6}$",$title)) works but (ereg("^[1-9]{6}$",$title)) doesn't only difference is one starts with 0, the other 1.

Woah! Be careful there. That wont match any numbers with a zero in it. So it wont match "100000" or "123450", etc.

Try:

<?php
if (isset($_POST['title'])) {
    if (ereg(\"^([0-9]{6})$\", $_POST['title'], $regs)) {
        echo 'id= '. $regs[0];
    } else {
        echo \"title like '%\" . $_POST[title] . \"%'\";
    }
}
?>

The string length match is performed in the ereg(). Only a 6 digit number will be accepted. Everything else will fail.

"%cat%" will match "cat" as well as any string with "cat" in it (begining/ending with or containing).