pear validation problems

[studentofstone]

I am trying to use PEAR VALIDATION  for a registration form an am not able to get it to work.

require 'Validate/US.php';

$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$validate = new Validate();
if (!$validate->email("$email")) {
echo "Invalid email";
}

is what I am using. and I $email is defined earlier in the code as the user input for email.

here is the rest of the code.

 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
     
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "studentofstone@gmail.com";
    $email_subject = "$first_name";
    
     
    function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
        echo $error."<br /><br />";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
        die();
    }
     
    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
	!isset($_POST['address']) ||
	!isset($_POST['city']) ||
	!isset($_POST['state']) ||
	!isset($_POST['zip']) ||
        !isset($_POST['email']) ||
        !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
        !isset($_POST['comments'])) {
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');      
    }
    
    $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
    $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
$address = $_POST['address']; // required
$city = $_POST['city']; // required
$state = $_POST['state']; // required
$state = $_POST['zip']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
    $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
    $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
     

    $error_message = "";
    $email_exp = "^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$";
  if(!eregi($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
    $string_exp = "^[a-z .'-]+$";
  if(!eregi($string_exp,$first_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
    $string_exp = "^[a-z .'-]+$";
  if(!eregi($string_exp,$last_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  
  
require 'Validate/US.php';

$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$validate = new Validate();
if (!$validate->email("$email")) {
echo "Invalid email";
}

//



$phoneNumber = '$telephone';
$result = Validate_US::phoneNumber($phoneNumber);
echo 'Test ' . $phoneNumber .' : <br />';
var_export($result);
echo '<br />';


  
  if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
    $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
    died($error_message);
  }
  
      
    header( "Expires: Mon, 20 Dec 1998 01:00:00 GMT" );
    header( "Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT" );
    header( "Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate" );
    header( "Pragma: no-cache" );



  
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
    $email_message = date("m/d/Y") . "\n";

    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
     
    $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "address: ".clean_string($address)."\n";
$email_message .= "city: ".clean_string($city)."\n";
$email_message .= "state: ".clean_string($state)."\n";
$email_message .= "zip: ".clean_string($zip)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";

     
     
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
header("Location: https://www.paypal.com/");  
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); 
?>

<!-- include your own success html here -->

Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.


<?
}
?>

[studentofstone]

nevermind got it.