Validate Email Address in Two Ways
This is a little code example that will validate an email address in two ways:
- first the general syntax of the string is checked with a regular expression
- then the domain substring (after the '@') is checked using the 'checkdnsrr' function
function validate_email($email){
$exp = "^[a-z\'0-9]+([._-][a-z\'0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([._-][a-z0-9]+))+$";
if(eregi($exp,$email)){
if(checkdnsrr(array_pop(explode("@",$email)),"MX")){
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
}else{
return false;
}
}
?>
- first the general syntax of the string is checked with a regular expression
- then the domain substring (after the '@') is checked using the 'checkdnsrr' function
function validate_email($email){
$exp = "^[a-z\'0-9]+([._-][a-z\'0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([._-][a-z0-9]+))+$";
if(eregi($exp,$email)){
if(checkdnsrr(array_pop(explode("@",$email)),"MX")){
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
}else{
return false;
}
}
?>
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