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Email validation - El Forum - 12-14-2010
[eluser]alexaaaaaaaaaa[/eluser]
Hi i have a problem with the email validator, it seems that if i insert something like
[email protected] it's working and it's passing the email validator any extension to the email validator or how to fix this issue?
Thanks
Email validation - El Forum - 12-15-2010
[eluser]Madmartigan1[/eluser]
I think [email protected] is technically valid...?
Code:
/**
* Valid Email
*
* @access public
* @param string
* @return bool
*/
function valid_email($str)
{
return ( ! preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix", $str)) ? FALSE : TRUE;
}You can create MY_Form_Validation.php and override the function there with your own. See the user guide section about extending libraries and have a look at system/libraries/Form_Validation.php
Email validation - El Forum - 12-15-2010
[eluser]smilie[/eluser]
Yes, by judging that preg match, after @ sign it expects minimum of 1 letter / number.
I am using following script for domain and e-mail checks:
http://code.google.com/p/blogchuck/source/browse/#svn/trunk
You have domains / email and phones scripts there.
Simply add them as a helper, load it and call function (providing e-mail address).
It uses IANA list of domains to check validity of extension and it can even 'call' the mail server to check that e-mail address really exists on that server - which makes it almost 100% safe check for the mail.
Cheers,
Smilie
Email validation - El Forum - 12-15-2010
[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
@smilie: thanks for sharing the validation link - it looks quite interesting!
You said "just load as a helper" -> did you copy the "domains" class to the
"emails" class to get it working? The class "emails" extends the class "domains"
so I wonder what would be the best to do.
Email validation - El Forum - 12-15-2010
[eluser]smilie[/eluser]
Hi,
That could probably work as well, however I have chosen for the following approach (due to the fact that I have multiple websites under 1 CI installation):
I have placed domains.php as domain_helper.php in the core/helpers (not application);
Then, in each application/config/autoload.php I do:
Code:
$autoload['helper'] = array('html','url','language','domain');Whereby 'domain' loads the before mentioned helper.
Then, in the controllers I do:
Code:
$domains = new Domains;
if(!$domains->validateDomain($this->input->post('servername'), false))
{
# Domain is NOT valid
}
else
{
# Domain is VALID
}Do note, that you have to download the IANA domain extension list and edit config in the domains helper so it can be 'found' by the helper. I have also placed in the cron of the server to get once a week 'newest' IANA list (although, it does not change weekly - it can't hurt) :-)
Have fun!
Cheers,
Smilie
Email validation - El Forum - 12-15-2010
[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
Thanks for explaining your setup! I'll try to implement that classes
in my next project where that kind of validation is needed.
Email validation - El Forum - 12-15-2010
[eluser]alexaaaaaaaaaa[/eluser]
Hi, thanks for the link, i have created a file named validation_helper.php and i've copy pasted the code from the link there.
Now how can i use it?
Please help me.
Many thanks