Is there a PHP library for email address validation?
I found a library in google code: http://code.google.com/p/php-email-address-validation/
Are there any others?
Best email validation function in general and specific (college domain)?
This is what I use:
function check_email_address($email) {
// First, we check that there's one @ symbol, and that the lengths are right
if (!preg_match("/^[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{1,255}$/", $email)) {
// Email invalid because wrong number of characters in one section, or wrong number of @ symbols.
return false;
}
// Split it into sections to make life easier
$email_array = explode("@", $email);
$local_array = explode(".", $email_array[0]);
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($local_array); $i++) {
if (!preg_match("/^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$/", $local_array[$i])) {
return false;
}
}
if (!preg_match("/^\[?[0-9\.]+\]?$/", $email_array[1])) { // Check if domain is IP. If not, it should be valid domain name
$domain_array = explode(".", $email_array[1]);
if (sizeof($domain_array) < 2) {
return false; // Not enough parts to domain
}
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($domain_array); $i++) {
if (!preg_match("/^(([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])|([A-Za-z0-9]+))$/", $domain_array[$i])) {
return false;
}
}
}
return true;
}
EDIT Replaced depreciated ereg with preg_match for PHP 5.3 compliance
Using regex for simple email validation
Try:
if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
echo 'Valid';
} else {
echo 'Invalid';
}
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