PHP Regex for human names

Question

I\'ve run into a bit of a problem with a Regex I\'m using for humans names.

$rexName = \'/^[a-z\' -]$/i\';

Suppose a user with the name Jür

Answer 1

That's a problem with no easy general solution. The thing is that you really can't predict what characters a name could possibly contain. Probably the best solution is to define an negative character mask to exclude some special characters you really don't want to end up in a name.

You can do this using:

$regexp = "/^[^]+$/