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I’m writting a small contact form from scratch and I needed a quick and dirty way to validate an email address with PHP

I’ve googled to find some examples and I found many examples for completing the task, however in order to validate the email address I eventually ended up with the following PHP code:


if ( preg_match( "/^[-w.]+@([A-z0-9][-A-z0-9]+.)+[A-z]{2,4}$/", $email ) )
{
# Do some processing here - input if valid

}
else
{

echo 'Incorrect email dying';
exit(1);

}


Now just pass the input $email variable from your form to the if condition and modify according to your needs.

Tags: How to validate a form email address with PHP / PHP Validate Email address

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