asked on 8/9/2011

email regex function not working

I am trying to validate email address's in a form and cannot get the code to work. It prints the messages but when a valid email address is included, it still prints the message ' echo 'You must enter a valid email address format'; '. I am using the elseif after an if statement and have only posted the relevant part of the code. Can spmeone tell me where I am going wrong? Many thanks

elseif ($email == '') {
        echo 'You must select enter an email address';
        }
      elseif ($email !=eregi("^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9._%-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$", trim($email))) {
        echo 'You must enter a valid email address format';
        }

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kaufmed

8/9/2011

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Derokorian

8/9/2011

      elseif ($email !=eregi("^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9._%-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$", trim($email))) {

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Checks if $email is equal to the return of the function which would be: Returns the length of the matched string if a match for pattern was found in string, or FALSE if no matches were found or an error occurred. So you probably just want the function in there. Also you can use filter_var for to make this easier:

elseif( filter_var($email,FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) ) {

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peter_coop

8/9/2011

ASKER

thank you very much

peter_coop

8/9/2011

ASKER

thank you

kaufmed

8/9/2011

NP. Glad to help = )