Question

I am going to build a multilingual website with PHP and need to have a preg_match which passes all Unicode characters and numbers.
i.e I need it to pass English letters, Spanish letters,Italian letters and as you may know I don’t want to pass other characters like ‘ ” _ – and …

I want some thing like this :

$pattern='/^[unicode chars without \'-_;?]*$/u'; 
if(!preg_match($pattern, $url))
   echo #error;

Answer 1

Unicode property for letter is \pL so in preg_match:

preg_match('/^\pL+$/u', $string);

for an url you could add numbers \pN and dot:

preg_match('/^[\pL\pN.]+/u', $string);