how to validate the user input to remove any special chahracters

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hi, can anyone tell me that how to remove special characters from the user input and to format the user such as:

123user, user-11, _user, $user etc,

i m using varchar in db for user name.

plus if i have like attribute gender and i want it to be unselected by default and want to use a dropdownlist to select gender from it how can i do it?

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For validate the username this rule:


 array('username', 'match', 'pattern'=>"/^([a-z0-9_-]*)$/", 'message'=>'url invalid: only letters, number, "-" and "_"'),

For make a ddl for gender:


$form->dropdownList($model, 'gender', array('m'=>'Male', 'f'=>'Female', 'h'=>'Hybrid'), array('prompt'=>''));

The htmlOptions prompt will leave it unseleted by default.

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thanks this worked perfect

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Glad it helped!

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