Question

Searched the web to find a regex to validate visitor name input in two parts but did not have much luck.

A “two parts” visitor name means for example Joe Soap, Tom O'Fool, etc.

I want to accept A-Z, a-z letters the ‘symbol and at least one blank space.

I need something like the following to do the job

if( !preg_match("^[a-zA-Z'-]+$/i^", $vname) )

but this will not pass; it keeps returning message to input valid name.

Is there a simple workaround?

Answer 1

Try this:

"/^[a-z']+ [a-z']+$/i"