note 34927 modified in function.ereg by vincent

In addition to john dot winstanley at angelsolutions dot co dot uk: Since we have a top-level domains (TLDs) like .aero, .info or even .museum, your e-mail validation function: eregi("^[_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,3}$", $email) won't work fine for all the e-mails available. The better solution is to let user enter not only 2 or 3 letters after final dot but a top-level domain name in length from 2 to 6 characters. So the correct e-mail validation function should be: eregi("^[_\.0-9a-zA-Z-]+@([0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$", $email) That works fine for me. --was-- In addition to john dot winstanley at angelsolutions dot co dot uk: Since we have a top-level domains (TLDs) like .aero, .info or even .museum, your e-mail validation function: eregi("^[_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,3}$", $email) won't work fine for all the e-mails available. The better solution is to let user enter not only 2 or 3 letters after final dot but a top-level domain name in length from 2 to 6 characters. So the correct e-mail validation function should be: eregi("^[_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$", $email) That works fine for me. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php