[pLog-svn] Email Regex

[Oscar Renalias]

I don't like to depend on PEAR either but if we can extract their  
validation code and integrate it into our own validation framework, I  
think it could be a good idea.

Try and have a look at the code and if it's not too complicated,  
please go ahead.

On 18 Jul 2006, at 18:04, Jon Daley wrote:

> 	I would bet we don't want to depend on PEAR for just email  
> validation.  We want to have as minimum external dependencies as  
> possible.
>
> What are the invalid email addresses that pass the regex?
>
> We could change it to this pretty easily:
> "^[a-z0-9]*([_.+-]+[a-z0-9])+@[a-z0-9]+([-.]?[a-z0-9])+\.[a-z]{2,4}"
>
> The full expression from the RFC is about a page long, we could  
> include that if needed to.  I think it is overkill for the real world.
>
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Ammar Ibrahim wrote:
>
>> The regex for the email validation rule is flawed.
>>
>>   define( "EMAIL_FORMAT_RULE_REG_EXP",
>> "^[a-z0-9]*([-_.+]?[a-z0-9])+@[a-z0-9]+([-.]?[a-z0-9])+\.[a-z] 
>> {2,4}");
>>
>> Not only some invalid emails pass this regex, yet worse, some  
>> valid emails
>> don't pass e.g. (ab__ar at hotmail.com, note the double underscores)
>>
>> My suggestion would be to use the PEAR email validator, I've used  
>> it quite
>> alot and it looks to be very good and intensive. The validator  
>> package is
>> big, so we can just take the email validation part and integrate  
>> it in
>> LifeType. If this is what we agree on, I can work on this and send  
>> you the
>> code.
>>
>>
>> - Ammar
>>
>
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>
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