On Sat, October 22, 2005 2:32 pm, James Benson wrote:
> It would be nice to have a php function valid_email or something but
> until then i suppose we just make do with what is available, for what
> I
> need I use the following:-
>
> eregi("^[a-z0-9]+([_\\.-][a-z0-9]+)*"
> ."@"."([a-z0-9]+([\.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+"."\\.[a-z]{2,}"."$",$email)
>
> Ive never had problems with it but have up to now no need for
> multilanguage validation.
>
> What is wrong with that validation anyway?If you are lucky, it does not reject any valid emails. For sure, however, it is not the 3-page 'correct' validation and therefore must accept at least SOME invalid emails... Almost for sure, it doesn't accept the new-fangled international emails. Presumably, if a built-in PHP function did this, changing it in one place would make everybody's code work right for this monumental change... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
