help with eregi!

[NightShadow]

Am using the following code for email address validation on contact:

!eregi("^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9._%-]+\.[A-Z]{2,6}$", $email

It no longer works as ereg has been deprecated, can anybody help me with an alternative?

 

[Ruddles]

preg_match? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

 

[NightShadow]

am trying to use the following but it sees any email address I enter as invalid:

!preg_match("/^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9._%-]+\.[A-Z]{2,6}$/i", $email

Any ideas?

 

[Pho]

The ! will reverse the result, i.e. good emails will appear as bad, and bad emails will appear as good.

Try removing it:

if (preg_match("/^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9._%-]+\.[A-Z]{2,6}$/i", $email)) {
 echo "Ok";
}
else {
 echo "Bad";
}

 

[Dj_Jestar]

That pattern could be better. You've got fullstops included in a range block, as well as after it?

There's so many email regex patterns on the web, why reinvent the wheel?

 

[Pho]

Looks fairly similar to this one.

 

[NightShadow]

Thanks for your input guys, the reason for the ! is because the code runs "bad email address result, else good email address result"

I know the regex is not great but I am just playing with it at the moment, I have actually found that the code works fine on my own webspace but not on my friends webspace even though it was working last month Any ideas?

Edit - That link is a good read Pho, thanks

 

[NightShadow]

The form works here:

www.ttop.nu/contact_us_old.php

but does not work here:

www.galileoclothing.co.uk/html/contact_us_old.php

Any ideas?

 

[Pho]

Do both sites use different versions of php? Run <?php phpinfo(); ?> on both sites.

 

[NightShadow]

Working site is version - 5.2.12
non working site version - 5.2.11

However I have solved the issue, still not entirely sure why though. The problem was that the form was using $HTTP_POST_VARS for the email address, changed this to $_POST and now it works!?

 

[PaulM]

Working site is version - 5.2.12
non working site version - 5.2.11

However I have solved the issue, still not entirely sure why though. The problem was that the form was using $HTTP_POST_VARS for the email address, changed this to $_POST and now it works!?

HTTP_*_VARS were deprecated in PHP 4.1 (2001) most hosts using PHP 5 have register_long_arrays disabled in php.ini so they don't work.

 

[NightShadow]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Thank you!

I knew it was deprecated but couldn't understand why it worked on a newer version of PHP but not the older, all is now clear! You can probably tell I'm new to PHP .