RE: [PHP-WIN] Getting at addressbook information on an Exchange Server...

Question 1 I'm not too sure about... Question 2: How do you mean spell check it? There are several levels of depth you could take this to. You could just check the format of it (ie something@somewhere.com) using a pattern matching technique ereg( "^[^@ ]+@([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9\-]{2}|net|com|gov|mil|org|edu|int)$" ,$email) is a rather simple one. This only checks that it's a valid format of email address however. It doesn't stop php emailing nonexistantaddress@onebigTLD.com (going out on a limb and assuming this doesn't exist!) There are ways of taking this further however. You can explode $email by the @ character and checking that the domain actually exists by simply pinging it or connecting to the relevant smtp server. This again, doesn't stop php from emailing gobbledegook1101240444@yahoo.com (again, probably doesn't exist but the format is ok and the TLD exists). The next step you could take (and this is getting a bit involved here... depends how much time you've got on your hands) is to talk to the smtp server and attempt to find out whether the user exists or not. I believe that it is possible to get an smtp server to confirm or deny a users existance. Like I say, these are varying levels of checking, I have to say I've only ever went so far as to resolving the TLD through a DNS server. A solution you may wish to consider, is only allowing trusted email addresses to be used. One way I have done this in the past is to allow a user to register an email address, and then email a random cipher to this address and make the user enter the cipher into a validation page, thereby validating the email address a genuine and held by the user. I'd be glad to help if you've got any questions about the solutions I've given. :) HTH Ross > -----Original Message----- > From: RS Herhuth [mailto:ronherhuth@mindspring.com] > Sent: 24 August 2001 15:31 > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Getting at addressbook information on an Exchange > Server... > > > > Two questions (well four if you count the sub questions): > > 1. Is there a way to get at the addressbook information stored on an > Exchange Server using PHP? Is there any documentation anyone > knows of that > can aid in this? > > 2. Is it possible to create an inline spellchecker that could be used to > spellcheck an email before it is sent using PHP? Is there any > documentation > anyone knows of that can aid in this? > > Thanks, > Ron > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >