psychowolvesbane Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 I have created a form that has a input field that users can enter their 18 digit (Format: 6,4,4,4) NUS number (For those who don't know what that is its the National Union of Students in the UK), and I was hoping to try and add an input mask instead of the numeric validation I have already that doesn't find out if it's okay or not. If that isn't possible then I might have a go at using 4 separate input fields instead. What do you think, is it possible to do it the first way? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/101452-solved-number-input-mask/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 if its client side then you'll need to use javascript, do a check on onchange or something? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/101452-solved-number-input-mask/#findComment-518947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychowolvesbane Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 Well I would like both client and server side in case people don't have JS enabled, so lets concentrate on server-side upon submission. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/101452-solved-number-input-mask/#findComment-518948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 regex could go a little like: /[0-9]{6}[, ]{0,1}[0-9]{4}[, ]{0,1}[0-9]{4}[, ]{0,1}[0-9]{4}[, ]{0,1}/ it'll be similar for both... p.s. they can use spaces or nothing instead of commies, you know what studies are like! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/101452-solved-number-input-mask/#findComment-518952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychowolvesbane Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 I would use - to separate them. Anyway how would I go about using that in an if statement when comparing the $NUSNum variable? Something like this? if (!preg_match('/[0-9]{6}[-]{0,1}[0-9]{4}[-]{0,1}[0-9]{4}[-]{0,1}[0-9]{4}[-]{0,1}/', $NUSNum)) I changed one of my Email validation masks to make this based on what you gave me. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/101452-solved-number-input-mask/#findComment-518958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Have you tested that? you could use: [, -_.|:] etc, to cover all the bases, p.s. some of those may need escaping... oh I just noticed: /^[0-9]{6}[, ]{0,1}[0-9]{4}[, ]{0,1}[0-9]{4}[, ]{0,1}[0-9]{4}$/ that the last bit was'n needed! p.s. this isn't checked, i'm here just to drink my coffee... and the theres a whole area dedicated to this subject next door... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/101452-solved-number-input-mask/#findComment-518967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychowolvesbane Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 It looks like it's worked in JS when I tried that so I'm assuming it will work just as fine with php. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/101452-solved-number-input-mask/#findComment-518986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 just thinking how you'd handle a replace to ensure continuity... /^([0-9]{6})([, ]{0,1})([0-9]{4})([, ]{0,1})([0-9]{4})([, ]{0,1})([0-9]{4})$/ but i'm not sure what would happen if a grouping was missing, i think it should be ok... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/101452-solved-number-input-mask/#findComment-518991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychowolvesbane Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 I ended up just using spaces between each grouping, also followed by giving the user a message beside the input to use spaces. Though the amount of people that cannot read signs properly in this day and age is horrendous! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/101452-solved-number-input-mask/#findComment-518992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 theres always two parts to a sign, the signifier and the signified, and i was so rightly informed the other day, it's all aboot perception... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/101452-solved-number-input-mask/#findComment-519002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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