note 30147 added to function.eregi

I couldn't get any of the email validation items above to actually work (maybe I'm thick) :) So I adapted a couple and came up with this, and it seems to work // function to validate email function validate_email($email_raw) { // replace any ' ' and \n in the email $email_nr = eregi_replace("\n", "", $email_raw); $email = eregi_replace(" +", "", $email_nr); // do the ergei to look for bad characters if( !eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([_\\.-][a-z0-9]+)*". "@([a-z0-9]+([\.-][a-z0-9]+))*$",$email) ){ // okay not a good email $feedback = "Error: $email isn't a valid mail address!"; return $feedback; } else { // okay now check the domain // split the email at the @ and check what's left $item = explode("@", $email); $domain = $item["1"]; if( gethostbyname($domain) == $domain) { $feedback = "Error: $domain isn't a valid domain!"; return $feedback; } else { $feedback = "valid"; return $feedback; } } } -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eregi.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+30147 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+30147 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+30147