Re: email validation string.
| From: | Nick Stinemates | Date: | Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:07:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: email validation string. | ||
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I just got this from: http://php.net/preg_match
<?php
if(eregi ("^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_.-]*@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,6}$",
stripslashes(trim($someVar))))
{
echo "good";
}
else
{
echo "bad";
}
?>
Hope it works out for you.
- Nick Stinemates
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:40:36PM -0700, Don wrote:
> I'm trying to get this line to validate an email address from a form and it
> isn't working.
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> if (ereg("^.+@.+\..+$",$submittedEmail))
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> The book I'm referencing has this line
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> if (ereg("^.+@.+\\..+$",$submittedEmail))
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> Anyway.. I welcome any advice as long as it doesn't morph into a political
> debate on ADA standards and poverty in Africa. :-)
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> Thanks
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> Don
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