Email validation in PHP

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Is there a php library for email address validation?

Hi there, I was just wondering if any of you use a particular public script or set of functions for dealing with email validation in PHP. The built-in PHP function isn't really anything to brag about.

Thanks for your time.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161342/is-there-a-php-library-for-email-address-validation — Carlos Gutiérrez, Feb 28 '10 at 20:37
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/what-is-the-best-regular-expression-for-validating-email-addresses — Gordon, Feb 28 '10 at 20:51

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '10 at 20:36

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I use to validate with cakephp function which can be found here

The regexp is this one:

'^[a-z0-9!#$%&*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:.[a-z0-9!#$%&*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?.)+(?:[a-z]{2,4}|museum|travel)$'

and can be found here

answered Feb 28 '10 at 20:36

Enrico Carlesso

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At the end it also excludes museum and travel? – soren.qvist Feb 28 '10 at 20:44
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No, it validates every 2-4 letter first-level domain (com, it, en, es, uk, org...) and the two long exceptions, .museum and .travel (which are first-level domains to, as shown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain). In simple words, museum and travel are the only two first-level domain longer than 4 char, so must be included. – Enrico Carlesso Feb 28 '10 at 20:49
Oh, didn't even know those existed. Thanks. – soren.qvist Feb 28 '10 at 20:58

Email validation in PHP

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