apostrophe in verification string

[turpentyne]

I can't get this bit of verification to recognize the apostrophe. I've tried putting the apostrophe in the front of the A, escaped it with a backslash. Escaped the backslash itself, like you see below. Nothing seems to get that apostrophe recognized.

 

$first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required

  $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z\\-\\., \\']+$/";
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';

 

I've tried quite a few combinations. Here are a few more that didn't work:

 

$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z\\-\\., \']+$/";

 

$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z\-\., \']+$/";

 

$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z' .-]+$/";

 

$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";

 

[Pikachu2000]

It seems to work fine for me.

[requinix]

Turn off magic_quotes.

[turpentyne]

aha! Yep, that did it. Had to do it through .htaccess with: php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off

 

as simple as that!

 

[AyKay47]

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aha! Yep, that did it. Had to do it through .htaccess with: php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off

 

as simple as that!

 

you don't have access to the servers php.ini file?