mb_strlen() is it enough?
When counting the length of an UTF-8 string in PHP I use mb_strlen()
.
For example:
if (mb_strlen($name, 'UTF-8') < 3) {
$error .= 'Name is required. Minimum of 3 characters required in name.';
}
As the text fields can accept any language (multilanguage), I want to make sure that PHP will count mutltilanguage UTF-8 characters correctly.
Is this sufficient or do I need to use other methods? I am concerned PHP may get it wrong for some r开发者_JS百科eason, or maybe I am just being skeptical, but I don't want people bypassing important validation because PHP is getting it wrong.
Correct
if (mb_strlen($name, 'UTF-8') < 3) is sufficient enough
make sure header is correct
HTTP-header (Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8)
you can also check alternative for some reason
strlen(utf8_decode($string))
UTF-8 to Code Point Array Converter in PHP
In addition to JapanPro's answer:
Your HTML can have :
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
instead of an implicit header declaration:
HTTP-header (Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8)
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