Re: a function question

The function strpos might be better, preg_match is a bit of overkill if (strpos($mail,'@') == false) // error message else // okay message graeme. Dean Hayes wrote:

Try this i got this working without any problems prints everything out nice an neetly <?php $mail = "FOJOMO@yahoo.com";

    $user = "patrick";
    /*
    comment function to get on screen
    function usermail($user,$mail)
    {
    */

    global $user;
        global $mail;

        $user = ucwords($user); // capitalizes the 'p' in patrick
        $mail = strtolower($mail); // converts all of FOJOMO into lower case

if (preg_match("/@/" , $mail)) { // searches for the '@' sign // Used preg_match not strstr /* Place array details here that will work i do not know of arrays yet so i can not help here */ echo "Valid email address and username details here<p>\n" . $user . "\n<p>\n" . $mail . "<p>\n";

            } else {
    print "Please enter a valid e-mail address";   //default if test fails to //find the '@' sign
    }

// Function close //} ?> Dean "The Insane Guy" Hayes <-- I design and i redesign but still i never designed true beauty like you --> ~~~ Call me Insane call me Crazy but there is one thing i know i am That is someone that shall reach peoples hearts with words ~~~ ~~ PHP seems easy enough but what about this ASP now that looks hard ~~ From: Patrick Roane <fojomo@sbcglobal.net> To: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-WIN] a function question Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:06:43 -0800 (PST) I am trying to create a function that works with two arguments. the 1st needs to be a suername. The 2nd needs to be an email address. Next, I have to use case conversion functions to capitalize the first letter of the username and convert the email add. to lowercase characters and finaly check that it contains the @ sign. If I can't find the @ character, return false: otherwise, I return an array containing the converted arguments. Here is my code (which I can't get to work): <?php

        $mail = "FOJOMO@yahoo.com";
    $user = "patrick";

    function usermail( $user, $mail ) {

    global $user;
        global $mail;

        $user; = ucwords( $user ); // capitalizes the
    //'p' in patrick
        $mail; = strtolower( $mail ); // converts all

//of FOJOMO into lower case if ( strstr( $mail ), "@" )) {

    // searches for the '@' sign

user_array = explode("-", $user, $mail); // this //function (explode) creates the array

            } else {
    print "Please enter a valid e-mail address";   //

default if test fails to //find the '@' sign

    }

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