PHP Regular Expression to validate email
Nov 26, 2020
I was originally going to use eregi() — which is not only deprecated, but removed in PHP 7.
Instead I’m using:
function isValidateEmail($EmailToCheck) { if (strlen($EmailToCheck) == 0) return false;if (preg_match("/^[\+a-zA-Z0–9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0–9._-]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4})$/", $EmailToCheck))
return true;
else
return false;}
Originally I just replaced eregi() with preg_match() but got an error. I had to change the pattern by adding “/” before and after.
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