Php native functions to check for aplhanumeric words
$strings = array('AbCd1zyZ9', 'foo!#$bar');
foreach ($strings as $testcase) {
if (ctype_alnum($testcase)) {
echo "The string $testcase consists of all letters or digits.\n";
} else {
echo "The string $testcase does not consist of all letters or digits.\n";
}
}
?>
More native functions can be found here
http://in2.php.net/ctype_alnum
July 30th, 2008 in
Php
