acloudtree » preg_match http://www.acloudtree.com Programming, Computers, Writing, Economics, and Life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:03:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Agapage : lastName regex http://www.acloudtree.com/agapage-lastname-regex/ http://www.acloudtree.com/agapage-lastname-regex/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 21:02:31 +0000 jared.folkins http://www.acloudtree.com/?p=753 So I met with the Children’s minister at my church and she reported a bug with Agapage. It was a pretty simple fix. Basically her last name was something I didn’t account for, you see it consists of two words.

Example : ‘Van Hoorst’

And the filter that I had originally created was only searching for one continuous string.

Here is the regular expression before

preg_match('/[a-zA-Z\']+/',$this->last_name,$matches);

and here is what I ended up with after

preg_match('/[a-zA-Z\']+\s{0,1}[a-zA-Z\']*/',$this->last_name,$matches);

I also trimmed any trailing spaces afterward just to clean things up.

-later
jared

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