symbol question

[Dada78]

Hello, I am re-wrtting my contact form to add a very nicer features. While testing this It kicking back "Sorry the email address you entered looks like it's invalid." which is what I have it to do in case the email isnt entered correctly. The email address I am testing it with as a in it which is the reason why I think it is kicking the error msg out. The code below is the bit of code that covers that. What would I need to add so it excepted the underscore or any other symbols that one might have in thier email

}
elseif(!ereg("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $email)) {
     print "   <h3>Sorry the email address you entered looks like it's invalid.</h3>";
}

-Thanks

[Dada78]

Let me update this, I just tried it with a email addy that didn't have the _ and it still kicked it back. Here is the complete code that I am using.

<?php
$to       = "[e-mail]"; // change to your email address
$name     = $_POST['name'];
$email    = $_POST['email'];
$subject  = $_POST['subject'];
$msg      = $_POST['msg'];
$d        = date('l dS \of F Y h:i:s A');
$sub      = "form to mail";
$headers  = "From: $name <$email>\n";  

$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$mes      = "Subject: ".$subject."\n";
$mes     .= "Message: ".$msg."\n" ;
$mes     .= "Name: ".$name."\n";
$mes     .= 'Email: '.$email."\n";
$mes     .= 'Date & Time: '.$d;

if (empty($name) || empty($email) || empty($subject) || empty($msg))
{
     echo "   <h3>Sorry all fields are required.</h3>";
}
elseif(!ereg("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $email)) {
     print "   <h3>Sorry the email address you entered looks like it's invalid.</h3>";
}
else
{
     mail($to, $sub, $mes, $headers);
     print "   <h3><center>Thank you ".$name." for contacting us.<br>We will get back to you as soon as posiable</center></h3>";
}
?>

[bpat1434]

Use this RegEx:

^[-a-z0-9!#$%&\'*+/=?^_`{|}~]+(\.[-a-z0-9!#$%&\'*+/=?^_`{|}~]+)*@(([a-z0-9]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9]+)?){1,63}\.)+([a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9]+)?){2,63}$

~Brett

[Dada78]

Thanks for the quick reply. It is definately some where in this peice of code.

elseif(!ereg("^[-a-z0-9!#$%&\'*+/=?^_`{|}~]+(\.[-a-z0-9!#$%&\'*+/=?^_`{|}~]+)*@(([a-z0-9]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9]+)?){1,63}\.)+([a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9]+)?){2,63}$", $email)) {
     print "   <h3>Sorry the email address you entered looks like it's invalid.</h3>";

I take that out to this below and it works.

<?php
$to       = "[e-mail]"; // change to your email address
$name     = $_POST['name'];
$email    = $_POST['email'];
$subject  = $_POST['subject'];
$msg      = $_POST['msg'];
$d        = date('l dS \of F Y h:i:s A');
$sub      = "form to mail";
$headers  = "From: $name <$email>\n";  

$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$mes      = "Subject: ".$subject."\n";
$mes     .= "Message: ".$msg."\n" ;
$mes     .= "Name: ".$name."\n";
$mes     .= 'Email: '.$email."\n";
$mes     .= 'Date & Time: '.$d;

if (empty($name) || empty($email) || empty($subject) || empty($msg))
{
     echo "   Sorry all fields are required.";
}
else
{
     mail($to, $sub, $mes, $headers);
     print "   <h3><center>Thank you ".$name." for contacting us.<br>We will get back to you as soon as posiable</center></h3>";
}
?>

Sp atleast I am on the right track to know where my problem is at. Just don't know why it's a problem.

-Thanks