On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Ron Piggott <ron.piggott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > I am using this syntax to check for a valid e-mail address > > list($userName, $mailDomain) = split("@", $buyer_email); > if (checkdnsrr($mailDomain, "MX")) { > > if no domain is provided ( ie e-mail address is something like âronâ with > no @ ) the following error is displayed: > > Warning: checkdnsrr() [function.checkdnsrr]: Host and type cannot be empty > > Can I suppress this from displaying so *just* my error message displays? > > Ron > Just add @ before checkdnsrr: list($userName, $mailDomain) = split("@", $buyer_email); if (@checkdnsrr($mailDomain, "MX")) { But you shouldn't use @ as it will make a PITA to find errors in your code when maintaining it. You should not display Warnings on production too, at least not for users but instead log those. Cheers, Thiago Pojda