Forget the numerous regex’s, if you’re using PHP5 (i hope 99% of you do…), just use PHP’s native filter_var function:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | function is_email_valid($email) { return filter_var(filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL), FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL); } if (is_email_valid('email@example.com')) { /* yeah! we've got a valid email address */ } else { /* oh noes! invalid email */ } |
