Either Google is wrong (probably) or they are now allowing things like
spaces into an email address. There are actually several things that are
not allowed in a standard email address. Here is the code that I use.
ereg('^[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+'.'@'.'[-!#$%&\'*+\\/0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+\.'.'[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+$',
$subarray))
I am honestly not sure where I got this code, but it has always worked for
me and I have not found any YET that are good address that this kills. I
have also not found any bad ones YET that this lets through (unless the
domain or user doesn't exist, of course).
Steve
At 01:26 PM 5/10/2002, you wrote:
>I had always been suspicious about email validators so I did a big long
>search on Google about standard address formats. It turns out that aside
>from the @ symbol emails have no standard format whatsoever. So ereg('@',
>$email) is really the only functional email validator.
>
>You also have to think about what kind of email validation you need. Do you
>really need to control the format of the emails being stored in your
>database? Or do you need to control the validity of the emails being stored
>in your database? There is a big difference. A valid email address isn't
>necessarily one that is formated in the way you expect. It is one that is
>active and can be mailed to. There are a number of techniques you can use
>to determine that.
>
>Well.. anyway sorry for going off on a tangent there. In your search for an
>email validator you got a bit more information than you expected. I hope it
>was useful in some tiny miniscule sort of way. :)
>
>--
>Kevin Stone
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>
> > Hi Liam:
> >
> > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:48:58AM -0700, Liam Gibbs wrote:
> > > Does anyone have a decent eregi statement for
> > > validating e-mail addresses?
> >
> > eregi('^[a-z0-9_.=+-]+@([a-z0-9-]+\.)+([a-z]{2,6})$', $Email);
> >
> > Enjoy,
> >
> > --Dan
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