Regular Expression Library
This is a draft proposal for central library of regular expressions to be used by core methods for validation/recognition purposes.
(stub)
lib/regex.inc
/**
* Wikka Regular Expression Library
*
* Defines patterns and regular expressions to be used by core methods for categorizing and validating strings.
*
* @package RegEx
* @version $id$
*/
//character sets
define('PATTERN_LCLETTER',
'a-z\xe0-\xf6\xf8-\xff');
define('PATTERN_UCLETTER',
'A-Z\xc0-\xd6\xd8-\xdf');
define('PATTERN_LETTER', PATTERN_LCLETTER.PATTERN_UCLETTER
);
define('PATTERN_DIGIT',
'0-9');
//stub
Patterns already in use
URI components
/^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?/
(source:
RFC3986∞)
Valid WikiName (as of 1.1.6.0)
/^[A-ZÄÖÜ]+[a-zßäöü]+[A-Z0-9ÄÖÜ][A-Za-z0-9ÄÖÜßäöü]*$/s
Proposed RE for valid WikiName
define('PATTERN_LCLETTER',
'a-z\xe0-\xf6\xf8-\xff');
define('PATTERN_UCLETTER',
'A-Z\xc0-\xd6\xd8-\xdf');
define('PATTERN_LETTER', PATTERN_LCLETTER.PATTERN_UCLETTER
);
define('PATTERN_DIGIT',
'0-9');
$validtag =
'/^['.PATTERN_LETTER.
']['.PATTERN_LETTER.PATTERN_DIGIT.
']+$/';
- Why not allow tags starting with digits as some users requested? -- DarTar
Valid InterWiki Link (as of 1.1.6.0)
/^([A-ZÄÖÜ][A-Za-zÄÖÜßäöü]+)[:](\S*)$/
External sites:
CategoryDevelopmentCore CategoryRegex