Email validation

mrgrammar

$pattern = "^([.a-z0-9_-]+)*@(([a-z0-9_-])+(\.[a-z]))";
if(eregi($pattern,$email,$matches)){echo "email-PASSED";}else{echo "email-FAILED";}

1. Is $pattern above sufficient to make sure that the email is valid and my form doesn't get hacked?
2. Will it disallow any valid emails?

Kardall

Try this one, I found this on the PHP page for eregi a while ago:

$regex =
  '^'.
  '[_a-z0-9-]+'.        /* One or more underscore, alphanumeric,
                           or hyphen charactures. */
  '(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*'.  /* Followed by zero or more sets consisting
                           of a period and one or more underscore,
                           alphanumeric, or hyphen charactures. */
  '@'.                  /* Followed by an "at" characture. */
  '[a-z0-9-]+'.        /* Followed by one or more alphanumeric
                           or hyphen charactures. */
  '(\.[a-z0-9-]{2,})+'. /* Followed by one or more sets consisting
                           of a period and two or more alphanumeric
                           or hyphen charactures. */
  '$';

mrgrammar

What does the $ at the end do?

Kardall

From a REGEX syntax manual:

$ (dollar)

Description:
Matches at the end of the string the regex pattern is applied to. Matches a position rather than a character. Most regex flavors have an option to make the dollar match before line breaks (i.e. at the end of a line in a file) as well. Also matches before the very last line break if the string ends with a line break.

Example:
.$ matches f in abc\ndef. Also matches c in "multi-line" mode.

codeordie_com

This is my option:

function validMail($email)
{
	return ereg("^[^@ ]+@[^@ ]+\.[^@ \.]+$", $email);
}

Regards,