Question

I hope someone can help!!!

In coding a form validation, I got the error message "Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in E:\Zacel_Development\sa_model_watch.co.za\insert_newProf.php on line 184"

I did some research and found out I need to change !eregi and !ereg to preg_match…

I did try this, but to no avail… can anyone please check my code and advise as I am stumped!

My Code Snippet:

/* Check is numeric*/
$regex = "[0-9]{10}";
   if(!ereg($regex,$field)){
   $form->setError($fieldValue, "* Contact number invalid");
   }

SHOULD APPARENTLY BE:

/* Check is numeric*/
$regex = "[0-9]{10}";
 if(!preg_match($regex,$field)){
 $form->setError($fieldValue, "* Contact number invalid");
 }

AND:

/* Check if valid email address */
$regex = "^[_+a-z0-9-]+(\.[_+a-z0-9-]+)*"
     ."@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]{1,})*"
     ."\.([a-z]{2,}){1}$";
    if(!eregi($regex,$field)){
      $form->setError($fieldValue, "* Email invalid");
      }

SHOULD APPARENTLY BE:

/* Check if valid email address */
$regex = "^[_+a-z0-9-]+(\.[_+a-z0-9-]+)*"
     ."@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]{1,})*"
     ."\.([a-z]{2,}){1}$";
    if(!preg_match($regex,$field)){
      $form->setError($fieldValue, "* Email invalid");
      }

This still doesn’t work… What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You have to open and close your regex pattern with a delimiter:

So that:

$regex = "[0-9]{10}";

becomes

$regex = "/[0-9]{10}/";

If you want the pattern to be case insensitive use the i flag

$regex = "/somepattern/i";