Changed Servers and Getting Error

The forms and validation were working fine. Uploaded to clients new server and now getting these errors.

Warning: eregi() [function.eregi]: REG_BADRPT in /home/phase1/public_html/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_Scripts_PHP.php on line 547

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/phase1/public_html/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_Scripts_PHP.php:547) in /home/phase1/public_html/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_Scripts_PHP.php on line 71

Any ideas?

Jack

What version of php is installed on that new server?

The first error is the only significant one... the second is caused by the first.

You need to look at: WAVT_Scripts_PHP.php on line 547

Then do some debugging around it. It appears it doesn't like the regular expression you are using or the extension is using.

It appears that it was caused by a regular expression used to validate the password. But why would it work on one server and not the other? It's using PHP Version 5.2.9

I'm not sure. Somehow the regular expression engine must be different on the two servers.

Ray,

Tech Support from the server changed a line in a function in WAVT_Scripts_PHP.php to escape the ? from the regular expression. Does this make sense to you?

function WAValidateRX($value,$regExStr,$required,$number) {
$value = $value;
$WAFV_ErrorMessage = "";
$isValid = true;
$regExStr = str_replace(""", '"', $regExStr);
$extraArgs = substr($regExStr,strrpos($regExStr,"/")+1);
$regExStrStripped = substr($regExStr,strpos($regExStr,"/")+1,strrpos($regExStr,"/")-strpos($regExStr,"/")-1);
if (!(!$required && $value=="")) {
if (strpos($extraArgs,"i") >= 0) {
$regExStrStripped=str_replace('?','\?',$regExStrStripped); // FIX FOR BROKEN REGEX - Hostgator
$theMatch = eregi($regExStrStripped, $value);
}
else {
$theMatch = ereg($regExStrStripped, $value);
}
if (!$theMatch) {
$theMatch = preg_match($regExStr, $value);
if (!$theMatch) {
$isValid = false;
}
}
}
if (!$isValid) {
$WAFV_ErrorMessage .= ",".$number;
}
return $WAFV_ErrorMessage;
}

Thanks,

Jack

You don't need to update our function... you just need to add a slash to your regular expression. What regular expression were you using?

This solution won't work if you meant to have a ? identifier as an optional character, which is what a ? means in a regular expression.

It seemed odd. The Reg Expression is /^\w*(?=\w*\d)(?=\w*[a-z])\w*$/ I needed it to validate the password for at least 1 number. It worked fine on the other testing servers.

Does the fix they recommend work? Or does it break the regular expression? It would appear to me that it actually wouldn't work properly... but I want to verify because I might be missing something.

Yes, it does work, but I would prefer to have the regex work without altering Webassists function.

All their code appears to do is add a slash in front of the ?... does it work if you don't update the code and use:

/^\w*(\?=\w*\d)(\?=\w*[a-z])\w*$/