Email Vertification (Steve Callaghan)

[Anon]

Dear,

I used to code you gave me, that is:

include ("valimail.inc");
$val_results = validateEmail ($YOUREMAIL) ;

if ( $val_results[0] == true )
{ echo"ok" }

URL: /script/checkemail.php3?YOUREMAIL=[e-mail]

However, I only have the output of the separated vars,

User: desmond
Domain:hdh.com

But no report on domain error, also the output is pretty slow, i hv to wait about 1-2 minutes.

So, pls help

[stevec123]

It only echoes if you are running in debug mode
IE
list ( $user, $domain ) = split ( "@", $email, 2 );
if($debug_==1) {
echo"user: $user<BR>";
echo"domain: $domain<BR>"; }

Are you running this from a server which is connected to the internet.

IE have you put it on your webspace It must be run from the Internet and called from a form

ie
if (!$ACTION){
<? echo"<FORM ACTION=\"$PHP_SELF\" METHOD=\"POST\">"; ?>
<input type="radio" name="ACTION" value="subscribe" checked>Subscribe<br>
<input type="radio" name="ACTION" value="unsubscribe" unchecked>Un-Subscribe<br>
<input type="text" name="email" size=25 maxlength=100>
<br>
<input type="submit" VALUE="submit">
</form>
}

   if ($ACTION=="subscribe")
   {
   $email=trim($email);
   $val_results = validateEmail ( $email ) ;

     if ( $val_results[0] == true ) 

then do what you want to do

else
{
echo"<center>Problem validating your email<br><center>[<?echo"$email";?>]</center><br>";
}

[stevec123]

1.It can't check the MX server to verify domain unless its run from the internet i.e on your webspace not on PWS

2. For most servers It can only verify the domain side ( although it does work with hotmail accounts - ie [e-mail] is returned as invalid whereas a real hotmail account is validated)

Speed of execution depends on communication with MX servers

maybe you'd be better sticking to using a regular expression to check if email is in right format

<?php

{
if ( eregi("(@.*@)|(..)|(@.)|(.@)|(^.)", $email, $arr_vars) or !eregi
("^{.+@([?)[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+.([a-zA-Z]{2,3}|[0-9]{1,3})(]?)$",} $email,

$arr_vars))
{
return(false);
}
else
{
return(true);
}
}

?>