Question

the user makes a selection and I want to test if the selection is valid. So e.g.

 preg_match("/(test1/test2|test3)/", $value)

The problem is that one value is test1/test2, but each test is treated as a single value. Any idea how to change that to have test1/test2 as a single value?

Eg:

test1/test2,
test3

Answer 1

Do you really need a regex here? How about:

 $value = 'test1';
 $valid = in_array( $value, array( 'test1', 'test2', 'test3' ), true );

That seems less intensive, but functional.