also, you might like to do some client-side validation before sending it to the server, in which case you can use somehting like http://www.dentedreality.com.au/jsvalidation/
HTH Beau // -----Original Message----- // From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Friday, 21 June 2002 12:00 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] E-mail address verification // // // // // // I do it like this: // // // if // (eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([\.%!][_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*$", // $email)) // { // list($user, $host) = explode("@", $email); // if ( !checkdnsrr($host, "MX") ) // return TRUE; // } // else // { // return FALSE; // } // } // // As you can see, the email can "look" right, but domain isn't // valid. So you // can check DNS record for MX domain. // Next step is to connect to mail server and verify user, but // usualy that // takes time and it's better to send some kind of auth code to // that mail and // if user conforms it, you can use it... // // This worked very well. For any of you out there that are // looking for a // simple verification with host dns lookup, here it is!!! // // For a more comprehensive "class" check here, thanks to Manuel Lemos // // http://www.phpclasses.org/emailvalidation // // -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
