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leandemon on 03/06/08


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Validate Email

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  1. function validate_email($email)
  2. {
  3.    return eregi("^([_a-z0-9-]+)(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,6})$", $email);
  4. }

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Posted By: koncept on April 14, 2008

.museum is a valid domain. Your regular expression should account for it. e.g. {2,6}

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