Validate email using regular expression in PHP

May 30th, 20082 Comments

Regular expressions, also referred to as regex or regexp, provide a concise and flexible means for identifying strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters.

Using below regex example, you can validate an email address -

eregi — Case insensitive regular expression match

$email = "someone@example.com";

if(eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+
(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $email)) {

echo "Valid email address.";

}else {

echo "Invalid email address.";

}

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2 Responses

  1. dsad Says:
    Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 7:05 am

    y u don’t allow capital chars?

  2. master higgins Says:
    Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 7:05 am

    Dude, eregi matches capital and non capital letters. Go to http://www.php.net/eregi if you don’t believe me. ;)

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