Advanced Search

Check that a variable is a valid email address

/ Published in: PHP
Save to your folder(s)
Wordpress function

Expand | Embed | Plain Text

Copy this code and paste it in your HTML 
  1. function is_email($user_email) {
  2.     $chars = "/^([a-z0-9+_]|\\-|\\.)+@(([a-z0-9_]|\\-)+\\.)+[a-z]{2,6}\$/i";
  3.     if(strstr($user_email, '@') && strstr($user_email, '.')) {
  4.         if (preg_match($chars, $user_email)) {
  5.             return true;
  6.         } else {
  7.             return false;
  8.         }
  9.     } else {
  10.         return false;
  11.     }
  12. }

Report this snippet


Comments

RSS Icon Subscribe to comments

You need to login to post a comment.