RE: [PHP] email validation string.

hi... the real problem you have with email validation is that the vast majority of the email validation scripts that you see in various apps only handle a part of what the wc3/spec states to be valid email addresses. if your app had the ability to handle the time constraint, a reasonable approach would be to simply fire off a msg to the email address and check the return status code! if you're really going to try to get a function to validate email addresses, and you're concerned about the outlying address types, then you're going to wind up with an ugly/hairy/complex situation. awhile ago, in taking the path least traveled, i punted this issue, and used a 'perl' function that i call from php to handle it... does it take a little longer, sure... but i decided it was worth it.... peace.. -----Original Message----- From: Roman Neuhauser [mailto:neuhauser@sigpipe.cz] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:17 AM To: WeberSites LTD Cc: 'Don'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] email validation string. # berber@weber-sites.com / 2007-01-19 10:55:21 +0200: > From: Don [mailto:don.rzeszut@gmail.com] > > I'm trying to get this line to validate an email address from a form and it > > isn't working. > > > > if (ereg("^.+@.+\..+$",$submittedEmail)) > > > > The book I'm referencing has this line > > > > if (ereg("^.+@.+\\..+$",$submittedEmail)) 1. Why did you remove the backslash? (the original was correct) 2. What do you expect the regexp to match? 3. Define "it isn't working". > Try this : http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-3274.html This will reject addresses that use greylisting, and 600 lines in a single function is gross. I wouldn't touch that. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php