PHP Regular Expressions and Objects

Creating a cleaner.inc.php

• You will have this program create a simple form that uses the following fields:
  • A firstname, middle initial and lastname textbox
  • A password box
    range of 8-40 characters must be allowed (no less than 8, no more than 40) and allow the following characters a-zA-Z0-9!@#$%^&*
  • A second password box to make sure they typed the same as the first one
  • An email address in a text box
  • A text area field
  • One set of radio buttons
  • One select menu
• You will use the cleanerclass.inc.php to filter out ALL your input, so you will need to add the appropriate sections to the example I gave you
• My example (cleanerclass04.inc.php) gives you the regex for several types of filters, you just need to apply them appropriately.
• You will use preg_match to validate the password and email fields
• use strip_tags(), preg_replace(),htmlentities(), nl2br() and similar functions to clean up the textarea field and name field
• Print out the "cleaned" results on a result page, and format the text area field to preserve their line breaks (ie match a \n or a \r\n and replace with a \n<br />
• Print the date at the bottom of the page in the format Thursday, November 6, 2014

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