<input type="text" to accept numbers only, its possible?

[nicksalad]

Hello, as the title says i want to have on a form a "text" field to accept only numbers (0-9) is this possible? i hope someone could answer me fast, i need to finish it today o.0 Thanks!

[jc_gmk]

Why not use <select> instead?

<form>
<select>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
<option value="6">6</option>
<option value="7">7</option>
<option value="8">8</option>
<option value="9">9</option>
</select>
</form>

[nicksalad]

Hello, thanks for your fast repy, i can't use select because the number values are from 0 till 99999, its a points adder (calculator machine) and it would make the code real heavy, can you imagine 99999 of those <option? hehe

[thetestingsite]

You could use javascript to see if a number has been entered in the textbox. If you go this route though; and you are pointing the form action to a server-side script, make sure you have a backup test to see if the data submitted was a number or if it was text (just in case the user has javascript disabled for whatever reason).

Anyways; as for the code for this "check", I think you could do something like the following:

Place between head tags

<script type="text/javascript">

function doCheck(field) {
 if (isNaN(document.getElementById(field).value)) {
    alert('This is not a number! Please enter a valid number before submitting the form.');
    document.getElementById(field).focus();
    document.getElementById(field).select(); 
    return false;
 }

 else {
    return true;
 }
}

Use as template for form:

<form action="something.php" method="POST" onsubmit="return doCheck('number');">

<input type="text" name="something" id="number">
<input type="submit" value="Check Form">
</form>

Not tested, but should work. Hope this helps.

[nicksalad]

Hello, when the user inserts a letter(s) instead of numbers and press submit, it gives the congratulations message like if the script were ran correctly but in fact nothing were added into the db, i want o change the message without using javascript if possible, now i was cheching this function but i can't make it work.

$str = (int)str_replace("'","",stripslashes($_POST[strength]));

if (!ereg("([0-9]+)",$str)) { print_error("Only numbers are allowed."); }

It doesn't work and i can't see whats wrong (im noob)

[nicksalad]

nevermind i found the solution myself:

$str = $_POST[strength];
if ( eregi( "[a-z]", $str ) ) { print_error("Numbers only!."); }

now the problem is with the wierd symbols...

EDIT: WHOAH! PROBLEM FIXED! :]

if ( !eregi( "^[0-9]+$", $str ))

so if they write anything except numbers it will show the error and wont try to save on db. hehe, thanks you two for your reply!.