Re: validating an e-mail address entry

Or ,as has been mentioned before, use the Manuel Lemos email validation class which will attempt to verify that the address can recieve mail. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don" <don@lclcan.com> To: "php list" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:50 AM Subject: [PHP] validating an e-mail address entry > Does anyone know of a way to validate an e-mail address that was entered > and submitted from a form? I would like to trap invalid syntax. > Perhaps there exists a script that does just that? > > I assume valid syntax is the following: > > One or more characters before the @ sign, followed by an optional '[', > then any number of letters, numbers, dashes or periods (valid domain/IP > characters) ending in a period and then 2 or 3 letters (for domain > suffixes) or 1 to 3 numbers (for IP addresses). An ending bracket is > also allowed as it is valid syntax to have an email address like: > user@[255.255.255.0]. > > Thanks, > Don > > > > -- > 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 >