stavros-s
8/17/2013 - 1:21 PM
PHP Snippet: Validate email Address: E-mail validation is perhaps the most used validation in web forms, this code will validate email ad
PHP Snippet: Validate email Address:
E-mail validation is perhaps the most used validation in web forms, this code will validate email address and also optionally check the MX records of the domain provided in email address to make email validation more robust.
<?php
function is_valid_email($email, $test_mx = false)
{
if( eregi("^([_a-z0-9-]+)(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$", $email) )
{
if($test_mx)
{
list($username, $domain) = split("@", $email);
return getmxrr($domain, $mxrecords);
}
else
{
return true;
}
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
?>