Hi,
Wondering if someone could point me to a piece of code that checks to
see if password being created is at least 8 char long and has a number
and a special character...
Thanks

Pakku wrote:
> Hi,
> Wondering if someone could point me to a piece of code that checks to
> see if password being created is at least 8 char long and has a number
> and a special character...
> Thanks

Hi Paku,
You want to look at regular expressions
http://au2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php

I've found this to be useful in learning regular expression syntax as well
http://www.regular-expressions.info/

The alternative method is to use a whole heap of strpos and check if the
result !== false
http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php

--
Hope this s, Cheers
Leigh Finch
www.phpmaniac.net

On Jun 12, 7:04pm, Leigh Finch <feiyan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pakku wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Wondering if someone could point me to a piece of code that checks to
> > see if password being created is at least 8 char long and has a number
> > and a special character...
> > Thanks
>
> Hi Paku,
> You want to look at regular expressionshttp://au2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php
>
> I've found this to be useful in learning regular expression syntax as wellhttp://www.regular-expressions.info/
>
> The alternative method is to use a whole heap of strpos and check if the
> result !== falsehttp://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php
>
> --
> Hope this s, Cheers
> Leigh Finchwww.phpmaniac.net

Thanks- I had just stumbled across that regular-expressions link in a
different context and was planning on reading it. This is
synchronicity- I must read it now!