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[David Krings]

Yogesh Agashe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is my first post to this NYPHP mailing list. So hello to everyone 
> and thanks for the thorough discussions which help a beginner developer 
> like me.

Welcome, was the same with me, except that I never really left beginner stage.


  > Is there any other way to validate first and last names. It will be nice
> to have have inbuilt function for such commonly used field types. I will 
> like to know how people tackle these issue.
> Thanks.
> 

The only thing I would check is that the fields are not empty. The maximum 
length is set via the maxlength parameter in HTML and everything else 
qualifies as  a valid name. I don't think you can reasonably script validation 
to make sure that the first name entered is "Dirk" and not "Dork".

David