Doc #66553 [Com]: FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL does not accept user@host addresses

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66553&edit=1 ID: 66553 Comment by: daniel dot wendler dot hamburg at gmail dot com Reported by: dregad at mantisbt dot org Summary: FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL does not accept user@host addresses Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Will this be fixed or will there be a FILTER FLAG to distinct between localhost / localnet mail addresses and public ones ? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-01-22 18:22:13] dregad at mantisbt dot org Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/filter.filters.validate --- It would be nice to document here the fact that FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL will reject addresses like 'user@host', despite the fact that they are valid as per RFC5322 See the discussion in https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49576 (especially the last 4 entries) Test script: --------------- var_dump(filter_var('user@host', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL )); Expected result: ---------------- string(9) "user@host" Actual result: -------------- bool(false) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66553&edit=1