quickform - regex

hi,
It weird. The regex function does not seem to work at all when I create rules.
Does anybody have it working?

$form->addElement('text', 'time_spent', '<b>Time Spent On Activity</b><br><font class="mainsmall">hh:mm', 'size="10", maxlength="5"');
$form->addrule('time_spent', 'Please enter a valid Time Spent on your Activity', 'required', 'regex', '/^[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}$/', null, 'server');

Sorry not quite understand your problem but just found some related info here.

http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=1810

Maybe it helps?
I not sure it that is your problem?

sorry for not being clear,
What I meant was that the regex rule is not applied at all. I am able to enter any value for the 'time_spent' form element. The regex rule should not validate the form if the format of the data enetered is not ^[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}$ .
At the minute the rule only checks if the form element is not blank.

I fixed it.
I don't know if it's optimized bt it's the best way I found.
It looks like the regex rule does not like the 'required' keyword.
To make the field required, I added a minlength rule.

$form->addElement('text', 'time_spent', '<b>Time Spent On Activity</b><br><font class="mainsmall">hh:mm', 'size="10", maxlength="5"');
$form->addrule('time_spent', 'Please enter a valid Time Spent on your Activity', 'required', 'minlength', '1', null, 'server');
$form->addrule('time_spent', 'Please enter a valid Time Spent on your Activity', 'regex', '/^[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}$/', null, 'server');