On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:11:28PM +0200, Cédric Girard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Florian Pritz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > + return ( ! > > preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix", > > $addy)) ? FALSE : TRUE; > > > > Some legitimate email address will not be matched by your regexp. > > Better use built-in PHP functions: > > return filter_var($addy,FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
I prefer this one. Given that the PHP release enabling filter extensions by default was released about 4.5 years ago, I'd say we can push this. Objections?
