PHP | ctype_alnum() Function

Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the PHP ctype_alnum() Function.

The built-in ctype_alnum() Function checks if all the characters in the given string, text, are alphanumeric. In the standard C locale letters are just [A-Z, a-z] and the function is equivalent to preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]+$/iD', $text).

Syntax

Following below is the syntax to use this function -

ctype_alnum ( $text );

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Parameter Details

Sr.No	Parameters & Description
1	text(Required) The tested string.

Return Value

This built-in function returns TRUE if every character in the given text is either a letter or digit, otherwise FALSE.

Example

Try out the below example -

<?php
   $strings = array('hello', 'foo!#$bar');
   
   foreach ($strings as $example) {
      if (ctype_alnum($example)) {
         echo "$example consists of all letters or digits. \n";
      }else {
         echo "$example does not have all letters or digits. \n";
      }
   }
?> 

Output

When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -

hello consists of all letters or digits.
foo!#$bar does not have all letters or digits.

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Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about the PHP ctype_alpha() Function.

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