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Bug #16655 Function for checking if email-adress is valid
Submitted: 2002-04-17 07:01 UTC Modified: 2002-04-18 07:19 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: metz at speedpartner dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: PEAR related
PHP Version: 4.1.2 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-04-17 07:01 UTC] metz at speedpartner dot de 
There are several reg.exp. around in Internet, but I'd like to see a function which checks if a string is a valid email-adress (is_email or valid_email or so)

Here is the regex:
^[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+'.'@('.'([-!#$%&\'*+\\/0
-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+\.)'.'([-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+$))'

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 [2002-04-17 07:19 UTC] bate@php.net 
function validEmail($email_adresse) {
		if (eregi('^[-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+'.'@('.'([-!#$%&\'*+\\/0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+\.)'.'([-!#$%&\'*+\\./0-9=?A-Z^_`a-z{|}~]+$))', $email_adresse, $found)) {
			if (getmxrr($found[1], $mx_records)) {
				return $mx_records;
			}
		}
		return false;
}

this is php function to check an email about validity and existing mx records. :)
 [2002-04-17 10:11 UTC] jtate@php.net 
Probably belongs in PEAR not PHP, along with the URL-ize function mentioned in a bug report yesterday (#16642).  Now... Which module does it belong in?
 [2002-04-17 10:13 UTC] metz at speedpartner dot de 
but isn't it possible to add this function to the "standard repertoir" of php?

I think many people will use it and at the moment everyone writes his own "version" of this function.
 [2002-04-17 10:23 UTC] cynic@php.net 
everything's possible, but PEAR is part of the "standard repertoire",
so you should be happy. :)
 [2002-04-17 12:36 UTC] metz at speedpartner dot de 
you don't know how happy I am ;))
 [2002-04-17 16:19 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
This belongs into PEAR (if at all).
 [2002-04-17 16:36 UTC] richard@php.net 
There's already Mail/RFC822.php
 [2002-04-17 20:32 UTC] cox@php.net 
It's wrong to only check the MX address as many domains don't have it (it's not a requirement). The CNAME has to be checked too.
 [2002-04-18 05:24 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
a public mail server for a domain 
that does operate *without* MX records 
does not deserve to be taken serious IMHO

how do you implement fallback servers without
MX records?

and even if you say and A or CNAME record is
enough, how do you check that the machine with
that ip does really accept mail? by probing
the SMTP port all the time?

hartmut@www.six.de might be a legal address by
the CNAME rule, but i can assure you that mail
to that address will never reach me

so no MX -> no mail makes sense IMHO
 [2002-04-18 07:19 UTC] cox@php.net 
I read some time ago a study done by a consultancy and the amount of domains without MX was terrible high (~20% of the domains audited). That's why I'm saying that. Of course all the "easy" e-mail verifications one can do, is only the half part as you can't check if the user really exists/is enabled or if the mail server is really there and accepting the emails for that domain (but we all knows that).
 [2004-05-10 20:53 UTC] raman at e11online dot com 
How can i check
 [2004-05-10 20:54 UTC] raman at e11online dot com 
how can i check version of database(say MySQL) thru PHP? Is there any function to check this in php
 [2004-09-13 22:10 UTC] phpengineer at yahoo dot com 
[10 May 8:54pm CEST] raman at e11online dot com 
Dear Raman,

You can use <? phpinfo(); ?> function to know about the version and other details.

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