ereg() usage for foreign language?

[yavona]

Hello,

 

i'm trying to write a function for registration. But my problem is to accept turkish characters like öçişüğı.

 

First of all, i've tried;

 

if (ereg('[^a-z0-9]', $user))

 

but didn't work.

 

than i've added turkish chars like çöiüğşı adter [a-z] but didn't worked.

 

than i've worked on  mb_ereg, mb_regex_encoding("UTF-8") but didn't worked again.

 

at the end i've this code;

 

mb_regex_encoding("UTF-8");

if(!mb_ereg("[a-z]",$_POST['user']))

{

echo "false";

} else {

echo "true";

}

 

when i write "öçiğüı" in input it accepted the turkish chars,

when i write forbidden chars "}][{{½' , it didn't accept as i wanted to be.

but when i write "test}][{{½" it accepted ) and i'm still crying since that second.

 

At the end, i've a problem about accepting utf-8 chars with ereg .. Any idea or code sample do you have for this problem?

 

thanks to all

[cags]

ereg should ideally be avoided, use the PCRE preg_ functions instead such as preg_match. You may well need to use the u modifier to match those characters.