RE: [PHP] Verify Email

This problem always gives me grief but this code here seems to be able to handle lots of different types of e-mail addresses, including the ridiculous 'domain.domain.domain.domain.us' addresses. Would appreciate suggestions on rewrites.. #------------------------------------------------------------------------- # FUNCTION check_mail() # RECEIVES an e-mail address variable # RETURNS 1/0 depending on whether e-mail address is valid # EXPECTS nothing # SETS nothing # DOES does a regular expression test on a variable to determine if it is a valid # e-mail address function check_email($email) { $email = strtolower($email); $test_email = ereg(".*@[A-Za-z0-9-]*\.[A-Za-z0-9-]*[A-Za-z0-9.-]*", $email); if ((ereg(",", $email)) || ereg("\ ", $email) || (ereg("^M", $email)) || (ereg("\(", $email)) || (ereg("\)",$email)) ||(ere$ $test_email=0; } return $test_email; } -----Original Message----- From: php-general-return-31166-gschnippel=forumone.com@lists.php.net [mailto:php-general-return-31166-gschnippel=forumone.com@lists.php.net]O n Behalf Of Website4S@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:43 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Verify Email Hi, I have a little form which has an email address field, I don`t suppose anyone has an if statement which I can use to verify that a user has entered a properly formatted email address? TIA Ade -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net