> In fact I'm wondering why the OP doesn't just do what every other site > seems to do - accept the registering user's input as valid, and ask them > to validate it by sending them an email address to that address. It still makes sense to validate the format of the address as soon as possible. The way you describe it the problem will have to be dealt with further down the pipe when email is sent to "haha your form doesn't have@validation!". Why not grab it before it gets that far? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php