note 65400 added to function.eregi
| From: | tim at rocketry dot org | Date: | Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:32:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 65400 added to function.eregi | ||
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The easiest way I've found to validate a properly formed email address is this:
if(!eregi("^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_.-]*@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$",
$_POST['EmailAddress'])) {
echo "<p>Not a valid email address</p>\n";
}
It basically just wants to see some alphanumeric characters + an @ sign + a . + 2 to 4 alpha
characters. So far it has done what I need for quite a while now.. Hope that helps someone. :)
Tim
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