ZF-550: Possible Alternative for ctype_alpha()

Issue Type:
Improvement
Created:
2006-11-14T12:24:55.000+0000
Last Updated:
2007-07-05T14:43:28.000+0000
Status:
Resolved
Fix version(s):
  • 0.6.0 (16/Dec/06)
Reporter:
Gavin (gavin)
Assignee:
Thomas Weidner (thomas)
Tags:
  • Zend_Locale
Related issues:
Attachments:

Description

If any i18n/l10n components need ctype_alpha(), instead of implementing ctype_alpha() using PHP, see possible alternative described in ZF-249.

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Comments

Posted by Gavin (gavin) on 2006-11-17T11:19:19.000+0000

Thomas wrote: {quote}1.) Not all languages seemed to be supported 2.) Performance problems if used in standard... should be selectable when used if use it or not 3.) This way ALL characters would be given... So if we have "Exámplé" it would also returned but á and è are not contained within the english characterset. Could lead to problems...

Not sure if there are other related issues but this was what came me in mind.{quote}

Posted by Gavin (gavin) on 2006-11-17T14:18:31.000+0000

This issue is not exactly a dependency, but use of this trick in the ZF should be consistent, if it is used at all.

Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2006-12-17T12:37:15.000+0000

We already fixed the related issue by using the /u parameter with preg_match.