Re: [PHP] Re: email address syntax checker

2011-01-21 Thread Donovan Brooke
Gary wrote: [snip] In fact I'm wondering why the OP doesn't just do what every other site seems to do - accept the registering user's input as valid, and ask them to validate it by sending them an email address to that address. Assuming an email address is even really required for operation of

Re: [PHP] Re: email address syntax checker

2011-01-21 Thread Marc Guay
In fact I'm wondering why the OP doesn't just do what every other site seems to do - accept the registering user's input as valid, and ask them to validate it by sending them an email address to that address. It still makes sense to validate the format of the address as soon as possible. The