Re: Checking email

Here is a script that actually connects to their mail server to see if its valid <? // Set the form error check to false $form_errors = array(); //E-Mail address verifications // Make Email a required field $Email = trim($Email); if ($Email == "") { $form_errors["required_Email"] = true; } elseif (!eregi("^([a-zA-Z0-9._-])+@([a-zA-Z0-9._-])+\.([a-zA-Z0-9._-])([a-zA-Z0-9._ -])+", $Email)) { $form_errors["Email_badformat"] = true; } // Attempt to resolve the MX host else { list($user, $domain) = split("@", $Email, 2); if (! checkdnsrr($domain, "MX")) { $form_errors["Email_badhost"] = true; } } // Check if there are any errors if (count($form_errors)) { // If the user left the e-mail field blank if ($form_errors["required_Email"]) { echo("<font color=\"#ff0000\"><b>Your E-mail Address is required.</b></font>"); } // If the format of the e-mail address is incorrect elseif ($form_errors["Email_badformat"]) { echo("<font color=\"#ff0000\"><b>Please enter a valid e-mail address.</b></font>"); } // If the mail server of the address the user provided could not be contacted elseif ($form_errors["Email_badhost"]) { echo("<font color=\"#ff0000\"><b>Your E-mail address did not resolve to a working e-mail server.<br> Please enter a valid e-mail address.</b></font>"); } } ?> "Marko Mihalec" <marko.mihalec@ck.tel.hr> wrote in message news:20020209093400.55441.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > function isEmailInvalid($val) > { > // regex for email validation > $pattern = > "/^([a-zA-Z0-9])+([\.a-zA-Z0-9_-])*@([a-zA-Z0-9_-])+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)+/"; > > // match? > if(preg_match($pattern, $val)) > { > return 0; > } > else > { > return 1; > } > } > > > > > >