<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ctype_alnum</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Character Type Functions" HREF="ref.ctype.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Character Type Functions" HREF="ref.ctype.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ctype_alpha" HREF="function.ctype-alpha.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ref.ctype.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.ctype-alpha.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.ctype-alnum" ></A >ctype_alnum</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN16167" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)</P >ctype_alnum -- Check for alphanumeric character(s)</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN16170" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >ctype_alnum</B > ( string text)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > if every character in <VAR CLASS="parameter" >text</VAR > is either a letter or a digit, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > otherwise. In the standard <VAR CLASS="literal" >C</VAR > locale letters are just <VAR CLASS="literal" >[A-Za-z]</VAR > and the function is equivalent to <VAR CLASS="literal" >preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]*$/i', $text)</VAR >. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN16186" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. A <B CLASS="function" >ctype_alnum()</B > example (using the default locale)</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br />$strings </font><font color="#007700">= array(</font><font color="#DD0000">'AbCd1zyZ9'</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">'foo!#$bar'</font><font color="#007700">);<br />foreach (</font><font color="#0000BB">$strings </font><font color="#007700">as </font><font color="#0000BB">$testcase</font><font color="#007700">) {<br /> if (</font><font color="#0000BB">ctype_alnum</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$testcase</font><font color="#007700">)) {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"The string $testcase consists of all letters or digits.</font><font color="#007700">\n</font><font color="#DD0000">"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /> } else {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"The string $testcase does not consist of all letters or digits.</font><font color="#007700">\n</font><font color="#DD0000">"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /> }<br />}<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > This example will output : </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >The string AbCd1zyZ9 consists of all letters or digits. The string foo!#$bar does not consists of all letters or digits.</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.ctype-alpha.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ctype_alpha()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.ctype-digit.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ctype_digit()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.setlocale.html" ><B CLASS="function" >setlocale()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.ctype.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.ctype-alpha.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Character Type Functions</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.ctype.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ctype_alpha</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >