Re: Why would this eregi() function not work?

Dave G wrote:

PHP Gurus, I have an eregi() function that I'm using to validate emails that users enter into a form. I pretty much took it directly from the book "PHP and MySQL Web Development". It looks like this: (!eregi('^[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$', $email)

1. Special characters within brackets do not need to be escaped. [.] will match a period. 2. If you're going to include a hyphen within brackets, it needs to be the last character, otherwise you're signifying a range. [a-z] is a through z. [a-] is a or a hyphen. 3. I don't think a hyphen is even legal in an email address... ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals – www.phparch.com