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Asked: 2026-05-26T04:05:40+00:00

I have a website where people can add content and when they type in

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I have a website where people can add content and when they type in titles, all characters are filtered when parsing to MySQL with PHP, only allowing members to write text and numbers. But I want to allow dashes (-) and brackets/parenthesis (()). Currently, I have:

$video_title = preg_replace('#[^A-za-z0-9 ?!.,]#i', '', $_POST['video_title']);

What shall I add or remove to the preg_replace function to allow these characters?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just add the \( \) \- to the expression

    [^a-z0-9 ?!.,()-]

    Since it just got erased, you only the the a-z once if it is case insensitive.

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