The validation for an e-mail address is huge, if you don't believe me pick up a copy of Mastering Regular Expressions by O'Reilly and look it up.... And they can't claim it's perfect...
I don't know about is_alpha() or is_alnum(), IMHO, I think is_valid_email() just doesn't belong. John |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nicos@;php.net] |Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:46 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [PHP-DEV] is_* | | |Hello, | | After having helped many users, I just thought of new |functions like is_alpha, is_alnum, is_valid_email() that we |should make so the new user can do valid form with good |verification without knowing how ereg() or preg_* work. We |should think about some another functions too... | | Any comment? | |P.S: they would be based on the same verification than ereg |[[:alnum:]] etc.. | |Regards. | |M.CHAILLAN Nicolas |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |www.WorldAKT.com Hébergement de sites internets. | | | | |-- |PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> |To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php | | -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
