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Scooter on 08/02/08


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isValidEmail

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URL: http://reusablecode.blogspot.com/2008/08/isvalidemail.html

Refer to the linked blog post for a broken-down explanation of the different components of the pattern.

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  1. <?php
  2.     /*
  3.     Copyright (c) 2008, reusablecode.blogspot.com; some rights reserved.
  4.     
  5.     This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. To view
  6.     a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or
  7.     send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California
  8.     94305, USA.
  9.     */
  10.  
  11.     // Validate an e-mail address.
  12.     // Supports quoted local part as well as IP address for the domain part.
  13.     function isValidEmail($email)
  14.     {
  15.         $lengthPattern = "/^[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{1,255}$/";
  16.         $syntaxPattern = "/^((([\w\+\-]+)(\.[\w\+\-]+)*)|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,})|\[?([1]?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]{1}\d{1}|25[0-5]{1})(\.([1]?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]{1}\d{1}|25[0-5]{1})){3}\]?)$/";
  17.         return ((preg_match($lengthPattern, $email) > 0) && (preg_match($syntaxPattern, $email) > 0)) ? true : false;
  18.     }
  19. ?>

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