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Tate on 12/30/08


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justinscheetz


Check that a variable is a valid email address

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  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. }

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