Re: eregi problems

My main cnocern at this point is that the eregi is being totally ignored. I just want to make sure the email address is in a valid format, not that it is a valid email address. I'll look at validEmailFormat as well, but I don't understand why it's not even being examined. dan * Justin French (justin@indent.com.au) wrote: > Dan, > > I'll give you a little piece of advise that was given to me a little while > back on this list: > > Go to http://www.killersoft.com/ and grab a copy of the > validateEmailFormat > program. > > <QUOTE> > PHP4 translation of Jeffrey E.F. Friedl's definitive Email Regex Program > from O'Reilly's Mastering Regular Expressions. This function is used to > confirm if an e-mail address adheres to the RFC 822 specification for > internet email addresses. > </QUOTE> > > Rather than trying re-invent the wheel, why not use something that conforms > closely to specs, and is widely accepted by many development groups. > > > All you'll have to do is something like (function names and filenames may > not be right): > > <? > include('inc/validEmailFormat.inc'); > if(!validEmailFormat($emp_email)) > { > echo "<center>please enter a valid email address</center>"; > } > ?> > > > Side topic: of course, you aren't checking for a valid email address at > all, your checking to see if the email address LOOKS valid. You're not > checking to see if the address is attached to an email box, or furthermore > if there's anyone at the other end to open/read your email... you're just > validating the appearance of the address to fall within RFC 822 specs. > > Subsequently bill@microsoft.com and no@wayamigivingyoumyemailaddress.com > will both return valid. > > > The only way to ensure an email address is truely valid is to send an email > to it, and have them respond... indicating that the address is linked to an > email box and furthermore, someone opened the email, read it, and responded. > > Even then, this could be done by a robot I guess. > > > Justin French > -------------------- > Creative Director > http://Indent.com.au > -------------------- > > > > > on 05/07/02 12:23 AM, dan radom (dan@radom.org) wrote: > > > I've got a form that's posted to a php page where I'm attempting to > > validate a > > field contains a valid email address. The eregi below seems to be totally > > ignored... > > > > if (eregi("^[a-z0-9\._-]+@[a-z0-9\._-]+$", $emp_email)) { > > echo "<center>please enter a valid email address</center>"; > > exit; > > } > > > > > > $emp_email is being posted to the form. Any ideas why this is being ignored? > > > > dan > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php