patricktr wrote:
> The character validation seems ok and it picks up when there is less that 5
> chars, but the max parameters doesn't seem to work at all - any ideas?

The problem is the +. Also, you should stop using ereg, as it is being
removed from PHP 6. Use the PCRE functions instead.

> PS. Is there a routine that strips out more than one space between words, e.g
> if someone entered 'John Smith', it would return 'John Smith'?,

This will do the validation for you, and strip out extra whitespace at
the same time:

$name = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $_POST['contact_name']));
if (!preg_match("/^[-a-z'\s]{5,10}$/i", $name)) {
$errors[] = 'Enter valid contact name';
}

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