because you should want/need to validate that the address is correct prior to determining if the email server is up running... the regex function simply allows you to quickly determine if the address is valid... doens't mean that it's going to go to an actual live user...!! btw simply checking for a single '@' with a domain doesn't do it... what if the user has 'foo@xxxxxxx' or 'r+foo@xxxxxxx'. will your regex accept/deny this??? welcome to the world of email validation -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:01 PM To: 'Jim Moseby'; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Re: email validation (no regex) > > What you have is virtually impossible to determine if all legitimate > possibilities are covered. > > email validation using regex is a very heavily analyzed subject > > Google "regex email validate" and you'll find loads of expressions. > Look at the Zend article, it provides some insight. > > I fully understand about the almost limitless possibilities. Googling the > subject returns results more mind boggling than the regex itself. :o) Do > ANY of the regex examples you have found cover all those possibilities? > If > so, why are there so many different approaches? For most applications, > where you will only be validating a small number of emails in a given day, > why put yourself to all the regex pain, still to not have covered all the > possibilities? > > In the end, with regards to email validation, all most people need is to > know that a given email has a proper username, just 1 '@' in the middle, > and > a valid domain. If it doesn't, its a bogus email address. As to that, why not validate the email address by sending an automated message to the supplied account, requiring the person to click on a validation link? Easy, simple, works better than either method currently being discussed, purely for its simplicity, if nothing else. Much warmth, Murray --- "Lost in thought..." http://www.planetthoughtful.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
