check for letters and spaces

[fugix]

I'm looking for a function that will check a string for letters and spaces...boolean preferibly

[Pikachu2000]

Check that a string contains letters and spaces, or contains ONLY letters and spaces?

[fugix]

sorry for not clarifying...contains ONLY letters and spaces...i tried ctype_alpha() but this returns false due to the space.

[Pikachu2000]

This returns 1 if anything other than letters or spaces are in $your_string. Or at least it should (regex isn't one of my specialities by a long shot).

preg_match( '~[^A-Za-z ]~', $your_string);

[Fadion]

I'm not a regular expressions expert, but the following code should work:

 

<?php
$s = 'php @freaks';
if (!preg_match('/[^a-z\s]/i', $s)) {
echo 'Contains only Letters and Spaces!';
} else {
echo 'Contains garbage data!';	
}
?>

 

The regex will return TRUE if it finds any characters except letters and spaces. If it finds only letters and spaces, will return FALSE.

[fugix]

thanks guys