Re: Re: Email Validation built-in? RFC

On Sat, October 22, 2005 2:32 pm, James Benson wrote: > It would be nice to have a php function valid_email or something but > until then i suppose we just make do with what is available, for what > I > need I use the following:- > > eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([_\\.-][a-z0-9]+)*" > > ."@"."([a-z0-9]+([\.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+"."\\.[a-z]{2,}"."$",$email) > > Ive never had problems with it but have up to now no need for > multilanguage validation. > > What is wrong with that validation anyway? If you are lucky, it does not reject any valid emails. For sure, however, it is not the 3-page 'correct' validation and therefore must accept at least SOME invalid emails... Almost for sure, it doesn't accept the new-fangled international emails. Presumably, if a built-in PHP function did this, changing it in one place would make everybody's code work right for this monumental change... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm