squaringkarma Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Hi again. What's a common way of verifying someone has entered their initials? My thought process was this: Person enters their name in three separate fields on a form: First Name, Middle Initial, and Last Name. [other fields not relating to this question.] Person enters their initials in a field called Initials. If they didn't enter a Middle Initial, I ask them to enter in an * where it would be. I would then take a substring of the First Name, Middle Initial, and Last Name fields and put them into an array. If they didn't enter a Middle Initial, I would somehow put the default value of that substring as an *. I would then use implode to convert the array to a string. Then I would compare the new string to the value of the field Initials. ...But I was wondering if there was a simpler/more intuitive way of doing the task. Hopefully my way made sense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatthewJ Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Sounds fine, but I think you can probably skip the array step Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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