Email address validation form

[melting_dog]

Hi guys,

 

Trying to ge this to work:

 

 

function  checkEmail($useremail) {

if (!preg_match("/^( [a-zA-Z0-9] )+( [a-zA-Z0-9\._-] )*@( [a-zA-Z0-9_-] )+( [a-zA-Z0-9\._-] +)+$/" , $useremail)) {

  return false;

  $error = '<div id="blackText"><p>Sorry! Please check your email address and try again!<p><p><a href="forumsSignUp.php">Back</a></p></div>';

}

return true;

 

//PASSWORD AND OTHER VALIDATION STUFF, blah blah blah

 

}

 

But its just not. Everything works fine if I remove this though. Can anyone suggest an alternative to email address validation? Thanks!

[melting_dog]

Well I found and used this:

 

if (filter_var($useremail, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {

 

and it seems to work. Is it really this simple though?

[xyph]

From what I understand it doesn't follow RFC 5322 to the T, but it should be enough for what you're doing.