oiksp_validate_name() – Return a validated name field

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Description

Return a validated name field

At the start of coding this all we wanted to do was to not accept a name starting with a digit e.g. 532ff6123 Because, except for names in non Latin languages, it should really be a letter. So I looked at stack overflow and found this, which seems like as good a start as any http://stackoverflow.com/questions/888838/regular-expression-for-validating-names-and-surnames Trying this Regular expression ^[\p{L} \.'\-]+$ But in the 'complete tested solution' it's ^[\p{L}\p{M}' \.\-]+$ And perhaps we need to convert apostrophes to ' Apostrophes are dealt with by stripping slashes from the input value before performing the preg_match. Later, if the field is redisplayed, then we run stripslashes again.

Usage

$string|null = oiksp_validate_name();

Parameters

Returns

string|null the name field if validated

Source

File name: oik-squeeze/shortcodes/oik-squeeze.php
Lines:

function oiksp_validate_name() {
  $name = bw_array_get( $_REQUEST, "oiksp_name", null );
  $name = trim( $name );
  $name_for_match = stripslashes( $name );
  $matched = preg_match("/^[\p{L} \.'\-]+$/", $name_for_match, $output_array);
  //bw_trace2( $output_array, "output array for name:$name:" );
  //bw_trace2( $matched, "matched", false );
  if ( !$matched ) {
    $_REQUEST['oiksp_name'] = $name;
    $name = null;

  }

  
/**
 * Don't process requests where the Name is more than 5 words.
 * This is just spam.
 * Note: The user doesn't get any message when the form is redisplayed.
 */
  $words = explode( ' ', $name);
  if ( count( $words ) >= 5 ) {
    bw_trace2( $name, 'Name considered to be spam: ', false);
    $_REQUEST['oiksp_name'] = '';
    $name = null;
  }
  return( $name );
}