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Bug #52170 FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL Error
Submitted: 2010-06-24 12:40 UTC Modified: 2010-06-24 15:52 UTC
From: francesco dot mortara at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.3.2 OS: Windows XP Pro SP3
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2010-06-24 12:40 UTC] francesco dot mortara at gmail dot com
Description:
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Email validation fail with php embed function filter_var.

The code below validate an email like user@domain without any TLD

Test script:
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$email = filter_var('user@domain', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);

if($email === false) {
	return false;
}


Expected result:
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Email should be not valid

Actual result:
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Email pas the validation filter

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 [2010-06-24 13:37 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2010-06-24 13:37 UTC] aharvey@php.net
E-mail addresses without TLDs are valid: FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL checks for syntactic validity, not necessarily actual e-mailability. You may want to look at getmxrr().

See also about half of the bugs on this list: http://p70.us/k
 [2010-06-24 15:52 UTC] rasmus@php.net
Try 5.3.3 - the email filter has been improved.  Also see bug #49576
 
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