Posted by Rik Wasmus on 10/04/07 07:48

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:44:51 +0200, shror <shahirwm@gmail.com> wrote:

> I need help in a small problem,
> I have created a registration form and I want my users not leave the
> username empty or even enter any number of spaces because sometimes I
> found that the users enter some space hits in the username and the
> form is submitted, so I created an array and tried to enter the spaces=

> but I don't know how to make my code reject any spaces whatever their
> number and I failed doing this, and what I did was that I entered in
> an array the user-names I reserve for later use and space, two-spaces,=

> three-spaces, four-spaces, ........... but I was exhausted so please
> could you tell me how to solve this and do it in a professional way.

http://www.php.net/trim

//trim whitespace surrounding the string
$string =3D trim($string);
//check for empty string
if(!empty($string)){
//do your thing
} else {
echo 'Please enter a username';
}
-- =

Rik Wasmus

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