I am validating email address using php with preg_match function. But I keep getting following error
preg_match(): No ending delimiter '^' found
here is my pattern for preg_match
$pattern = "^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$";
How to fix this?
Just use:
$pattern = "/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,})$/i";
i at the end.Maybe using
filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
Would be an easier approach.
use this code
<?php
$email = "asd/[email protected]";
$regex = '/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/';
$email = (preg_match($regex, $email))?$email:"invalid email";
?>
Because of the issues caused by FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL (for instance it doesn't work well with not-latin characters), I prefer to use:
preg_match("/^[^@]+@[^@]+\.[a-z]{2,6}$/i",$email_address);
Updated the pattern to also allow addresses like [email protected]
$pattern = "/^[_a-z0-9-+]+(\.[_a-z0-9-+]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,})$/i";
Using the function filter_var() in PHP would only be easier if a postmaster wanted to allow an RFC style match for e-mail addresses. For some applications or MTAs (sendmail, etc...), this might not be desirable. However, if one is to go the preg_match() route, I would suggest investigating non-greedy quantifiers and capture statements that do not use buffers. A good place to start would be https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pcre.php .
This is a simple email validation method with regex:
public function emailValidation($email)
{
$regex = "/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,10})$/";
$email = strtolower($email);
return preg_match ($regex, $email);
}
Just add "^" after $ at the end :
$pattern = "^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$^";
var emailid = $.trim($('#emailid').val());
if( ! /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/.test(emailid)){
alert("<?php echo "email_invalid" ?>");
return false;
}
