If the regexp matches, it is a valid email, so you need ! in front of it. dan radom wrote:
>I've got a form that's posted to a php page where I'm attempting to validate a field >contains a valid email address. The eregi below seems to be totally ignored... > > if (eregi("^[a-z0-9\._-]+@[a-z0-9\._-]+$", $emp_email)) { > echo "<center>please enter a valid email address</center>"; > exit; > } > > >$emp_email is being posted to the form. Any ideas why this is being ignored? > >dan > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php