On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:40:36PM -0700, Don wrote:
 I'm trying to get this line to validate an email address from a form and it
 isn't working.

 if (ereg("[EMAIL PROTECTED]",$submittedEmail))


 The book I'm referencing has this line

 if (ereg("[EMAIL PROTECTED]",$submittedEmail))

 Anyway.. I welcome any advice as long as it doesn't morph into a political
 debate on ADA standards and poverty in Africa. :-)

 Thanks

 Don


Don:

I picked this up in my travels.

function validate_email($email)
{

   // Create the syntactical validation regular expression
$regexp = "^([_a-z0-9-]+)(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$";

   // Presume that the email is invalid
   $valid = 0;

   // Validate the syntax
   if (eregi($regexp, $email))
   {
      list($username,$domaintld) = split("@",$email);
      // Validate the domain
      if (getmxrr($domaintld,$mxrecords))
         $valid = 1;
   } else {
      $valid = 0;
   }

   return $valid;

}

$email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";

if (validate_email($email))
   echo "Email is valid!";
else
   echo "Email is invalid!";

hth's

tedd


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