Regular Expression for a password with at least 8 characters and at least 1 non-alphanumeric character(s)
non-alphanumeric, passwords, php, regex
Solution
Try something like this to check if they used non-alphanumeric characters:
if( !preg_match( '/[^A-Za-z0-9]+/', $password) || strlen( $password) < 8)
{
echo "Invalid password!";
}
The `if` statement will evaluate to `true` if the `$password` does not contain at least one of the characters not in the list (alphanumeric characters).
Problem
I am trying to make a check in PHP if a user changes their password their new password must be 8 or more characters and with at least 1 non-alphanumeric password. How should I check this and what would the regex be? Checking the length is the easy part `strlen >= 8`. My problem is regular expressions. I really have no clue about regular expressions even after years of studying computer science. Thanks