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How to get a Web POST variable into an array using PHP

Using PHP 4.3.2 I'm wanting to validate email addresses that are entered into a form. There may be one or more adrresses but multiples will be separated by commas ','.
i.e - dbn@acme.com,sam@acme.com
The following code does not work. Any ideas?
Also how to trim spaces out of the entry in case of:
i.e - dbn@acme.com, sam@acme.com

$emails = array($_POST['EmailRecipients']);
for ($i = 0; $i < count($emails); $i++) {
      if (!eregi ("^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$", $emails[i])) {
            ReportAdminError("Email is incorrect - $emails[i]",'Error','report_template');
            exit;
      }
}

Thanks in advance,
David

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morristhebear

MrEne, yours works along the same line as mine but doesn't remove the whitespace as requested.

MrEne

to remove spaces. hope that works.

$emails = explode ( ',' , $_POST['EmailRecipients'] );
$emails = str_replace(" ", "", $emails );

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dnotestine

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Everyone was so fast it was hard to distribute the points. Sorry if I upset anyone with the point spread.