Checking email address

[neil109]

hi i need to check an email address to see if it follows the basic layout, check that it has the @ and the . after the at is there somewere. any ideas?

[rIkLuNd]

$email = strtolower($email);
if(preg_match('#^[-_a-z0-9]+(\.[-_a-z0-9]+)*@[-a-z0-9]+(\.[-a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,6}$#',$email)) {
echo "correct";
} else {
echo "wrong";
}

I haven't tested this code!

[rheroux]

Try this:

<?php

$string = "[e-mail]";

if(preg_match("/^([a-zA-Z0-9_-.]+)@(([[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9-]+.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(]?)$/",$string))
{
echo "It's a match.";
}
else
{
echo "Not a match";
}

?>