How to validate an Email in PHP?

Php Problem Overview

How can I validate the input value is a valid email address using php5. Now I am using this code

function isValidEmail($email){ 
     $pattern = "^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$"; 
      
     if (eregi($pattern, $email)){ 
        return true; 
     } 
     else { 
        return false; 
     }    
}

but it shows deprecated error. How can I fix this issue. Please help me.

Php Solutions

Solution 1 - Php

You can use the filter_var() function, which gives you a lot of handy validation and sanitization options.

filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)

PHP Manual filter_var()
Available in PHP >= 5.2.0

If you don't want to change your code that relied on your function, just do:

function isValidEmail($email){ 
    return filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) !== false;
}

Note: For other uses (where you need Regex), the deprecated ereg function family (POSIX Regex Functions) should be replaced by the preg family (PCRE Regex Functions). There are a small amount of differences, reading the Manual should suffice.

Update 1: As pointed out by @binaryLV:

> PHP 5.3.3 and 5.2.14 had a bug related to > FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL, which resulted in segfault when validating > large values. Simple and safe workaround for this is using strlen() > before filter_var(). I'm not sure about 5.3.4 final, but it is > written that some 5.3.4-snapshot versions also were affected.

This bug has already been fixed.

Update 2: This method will of course validate bazmega@kapa as a valid email address, because in fact it is a valid email address. But most of the time on the Internet, you also want the email address to have a TLD: [email protected]. As suggested in this blog post (link posted by @Istiaque Ahmed), you can augment filter_var() with a regex that will check for the existence of a dot in the domain part (will not check for a valid TLD though):

function isValidEmail($email) {
    return filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) 
        && preg_match('/@.+\./', $email);
}

As @Eliseo Ocampos pointed out, this problem only exists before PHP 5.3, in that version they changed the regex and now it does this check, so you do not have to.

Solution 2 - Php

See the notes at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php:

> Note: > > As of PHP 5.3.0, the regex extension is deprecated in favor of > the PCRE extension. Calling this > function will issue an E_DEPRECATED > notice. See the list of differences > for help on converting to PCRE. > > Note: > > preg_match(), which uses a Perl-compatible regular expression > syntax, is often a faster alternative > to ereg().

Solution 3 - Php

This is old post but I will share one my solution because noone mention here one problem before.

New email address can contain UTF-8 characters or special domain names like .live, .news etc.

Also I find that some email address can be on Cyrilic and on all cases standard regex or filter_var() will fail.

That's why I made an solution for it:

function valid_email($email) 
{
	if(is_array($email) || is_numeric($email) || is_bool($email) || is_float($email) || is_file($email) || is_dir($email) || is_int($email))
		return false;
	else
	{
		$email=trim(strtolower($email));
		if(filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)!==false) return $email;
		else
		{
			$pattern = '/^(?!(?:(?:\\x22?\\x5C[\\x00-\\x7E]\\x22?)|(?:\\x22?[^\\x5C\\x22]\\x22?)){255,})(?!(?:(?:\\x22?\\x5C[\\x00-\\x7E]\\x22?)|(?:\\x22?[^\\x5C\\x22]\\x22?)){65,}@)(?:(?:[\\x21\\x23-\\x27\\x2A\\x2B\\x2D\\x2F-\\x39\\x3D\\x3F\\x5E-\\x7E]+)|(?:\\x22(?:[\\x01-\\x08\\x0B\\x0C\\x0E-\\x1F\\x21\\x23-\\x5B\\x5D-\\x7F]|(?:\\x5C[\\x00-\\x7F]))*\\x22))(?:\\.(?:(?:[\\x21\\x23-\\x27\\x2A\\x2B\\x2D\\x2F-\\x39\\x3D\\x3F\\x5E-\\x7E]+)|(?:\\x22(?:[\\x01-\\x08\\x0B\\x0C\\x0E-\\x1F\\x21\\x23-\\x5B\\x5D-\\x7F]|(?:\\x5C[\\x00-\\x7F]))*\\x22)))*@(?:(?:(?!.*[^.]{64,})(?:(?:(?:xn--)?[a-z0-9]+(?:-+[a-z0-9]+)*\\.){1,126}){1,}(?:(?:[a-z][a-z0-9]*)|(?:(?:xn--)[a-z0-9]+))(?:-+[a-z0-9]+)*)|(?:\\[(?:(?:IPv6:(?:(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){7})|(?:(?!(?:.*[a-f0-9][:\\]]){7,})(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){0,5})?::(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){0,5})?)))|(?:(?:IPv6:(?:(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){5}:)|(?:(?!(?:.*[a-f0-9]:){5,})(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){0,3})?::(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){0,3}:)?)))?(?:(?:25[0-5])|(?:2[0-4][0-9])|(?:1[0-9]{2})|(?:[1-9]?[0-9]))(?:\\.(?:(?:25[0-5])|(?:2[0-4][0-9])|(?:1[0-9]{2})|(?:[1-9]?[0-9]))){3}))\\]))$/iD';
			return (preg_match($pattern, $email) === 1) ? $email : false;
		}
	}
}

This function work perfectly for all cases and email formats.

Solution 4 - Php

I always use this:

function validEmail($email){
	// First, we check that there's one @ symbol, and that the lengths are right
    if (!preg_match("/^[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{1,255}$/", $email)) {
        // Email invalid because wrong number of characters in one section, or wrong number of @ symbols.
        return false;
    }
    // Split it into sections to make life easier
    $email_array = explode("@", $email);
    $local_array = explode(".", $email_array[0]);
    for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($local_array); $i++) {
        if (!preg_match("/^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$/", $local_array[$i])) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    if (!preg_match("/^\[?[0-9\.]+\]?$/", $email_array[1])) { // Check if domain is IP. If not, it should be valid domain name
        $domain_array = explode(".", $email_array[1]);
        if (sizeof($domain_array) < 2) {
            return false; // Not enough parts to domain
        }
        for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($domain_array); $i++) {
            if (!preg_match("/^(([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])|([A-Za-z0-9]+))$/", $domain_array[$i])) {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }

    return true;
}

Solution 5 - Php

> User data is very important for a good developer, so don't ask again > and again for same data, use some logic to correct some basic error in data.

Before validation of Email: First you have to remove all illegal characters from email.

//This will Remove all illegal characters from email
$email = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);

after that validate your email address using this filter_var() function.

filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) // To Validate the email

For e.g.

<?php
$email = "[email protected]";

// Remove all illegal characters from email
$email = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);

// Validate email
if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
    echo $email." is a valid email address";
} else {
    echo $email." is not a valid email address";
}
?>

Solution 6 - Php

Use:

or "filter_var" from http://php.net/manual/en/function.filter-var.php

var_dump(filter_var('[email protected]', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL));

or "EmailValidator" from https://github.com/egulias/EmailValidator

$validator = new EmailValidator();
$multipleValidations = new MultipleValidationWithAnd([
    new RFCValidation(),
    new DNSCheckValidation()
]);
$validator->isValid("[email protected]", $multipleValidations); //true

Solution 7 - Php

take several care, a address as [email protected] is INVALID, but filter_var() return true, many others strings (emails) INVALIDS return true using filter_var().

for validate email I use this function:

function correcorre($s){// correo correcto
	$x = '^([[:alnum:]](_|-|\.)*)*[[:alnum:]]+@([[:alnum:]]+(-|\.)+)*[[:alnum:]]+\.[[:alnum:]]+$';
	preg_match("!$x!i", $s, $M);
	if(!empty($M[0]))return($M[0]);
	}

please improve and share, thanks

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