PHP Validate Email

Every so often (ok, a lot more than that), you need to validate an email address. The obvious solution is to use regular expressions, however PHP provides a better method using the filter_var() function.

To validate an email address using PHP, simply do the following:

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$email = "jack@re-cycledair.wploadtest.xyz";
if(filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) == TRUE) {
     echo "Valid Email.";
} else {
     echo "Email is not valid.";
}

Note: This only works for PHP >= 5.2