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Validating an email address

Started by kromagnon, Jul 21 2006 09:28 AM

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#1
kromagnon

Posted 21 July 2006 - 09:28 AM

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If I have a form where a user needs to put in an email address, how can I test that to make sure that it is in fact an email address (something@somewhere) and not just crap(crapcrapcrap)

#2
Guest_Jordan_*

Posted 21 July 2006 - 10:22 AM

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<?PHP

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Author: Jordan

// Date: 9-30-05

// Copyright: 2005

// Description: Validates email addresses inside

//     of a function call

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


// take a given email address and split it into the  

// username and domain.


function ValidateEmail($v_email)

{


	list($v_userName, $v_mailDomain) = split("@", $v_email);

	if (ValidateEmail2($v_mailDomain, "MX")) {

 		// this is a valid email domain!

		return true;

	}


	else {

		  // this email domain doesn't exist! bad dog! no biscuit!

		  return false;

	}


}

?>