Validate Email address with PHP

[webmyne]

I have my website completely made in PHP. But I m stuck in the Email address validation. How can i do that with PHP

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[DaveSpencer]

Have you had a look at this: http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Misce...tion-with-PHP/

[Pandadan]

you must use regular expression and eregi function
something like that:

if (!eregi("^[a-z...]+@[a-z...]+\.[a-z...]), $email)

{
...
}

[iioacademy]

It can either be validate thru js or php,
but I suggest javascript, for it is browser based, that means

1. the data is pass to your script after its validated.

[MattCA]

Originally Posted by iioacademy

It can either be validate thru js or php,
but I suggest javascript, for it is browser based, that means

Never do "js or php" validation, you can do PHP or both. If user has JS disabled then all goes to the script without checking, which is bad.

eregi function suggested by Pandadan is deprecated.

PHP has built-in filter method to validate strings like emails and urls, which is filter_var(), so you could use:

PHP Code:

if ( !filter_var($mailVar, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) ) {
    echo 'Wrong e-mail address!';
} else {
    emailIsCorrect();
} 


[jenny3103]

In PHP we can do validation using ASP scripting language.

[bizboy12]

Check out the page http://www.phpkode.com/scripts/item/email-validator/

This PHP Script is used to check DNS records of valid email addresses. It matches it against a generic e-mail regular expression to see if the entered string has the format of an email address.

Hopefully can help you!

More free PHP validation scripts you can check out the page to search and free download the script you want.

[nancysparx]

Thanks a lot for posting the coding part.I definitely use it in my work.

[tylerlongtw]

a better option is to use javascript, so that you may not have to utilize the server resources, but any how the above provided expression by pandadan is correct