I am a regex noob but I wish to write a regex to check for email for domain name xyz.com.it if user key in abc.com or other TLD domain names, it will pass. If user keys in xyz after the # then, only xyz.com.it will pass, others like xyz.net.it or xyz.net will not pass.Any idea how to do it?
I had tried
var regex = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-])+\#(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
var regexEmail = regex.test($('#email').val());
that only validates normal email
Now instead of using regex you can simply use strstr function of PHP like as
$email = "xyz#xyz.com";
$email2 = "xyz#xyz.net";
$valid_domain = "#xyz.com";
function checkValidDomain($email, $valid_domain){
if(!filter_var($email,FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) !== false){
if(strstr($email,"#") == $valid_domain){
return "Valid";
}else{
return "Invalid";
}
}else{
return "Invalid Email";
}
}
echo checkValidDomain($email, $valid_domain);// Valid
echo checkValidDomain($email2, $valid_domain);// Invalid
Why I didn't used regex over here you can read many of those threads on SO too Email validation using regular expression in PHP and Using a regular expression to validate an email address
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Everybody, I need To allow just string and numbers and dots "." in my email
'email' => 'required|string|email|unique:users|not_regex:/^.+$/i|regex :/^.+#.+$/i',
My Code Here is not allowing for "." i ned to allow just "." and block others like
[# / \ $%^&* etc]
You actually don't need a regex nowadays to validate a string consisting of an email address that should only include letters, numbers, and the # and dot symbols. PHP allows for proper validation when you apply filter_var() twice, first to sanitize the data and then again to validate it, as follows:
<?php
// Variables to check
$emailA = "john1.doe#example.com";
$emailB = "john1.doe#example#.com";
// Remove all illegal characters from email
$emailValid = filter_var($emailA, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$emailInvalid = filter_var($emailB, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
// Validate e-mail
if (filter_var($emailValid, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
echo("$emailValid is a valid email address"),"\n";
} else {
echo("$emailValid is not a valid email address");
}
if (filter_var($emailInvalid, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
echo("$emailInvalid is a valid email address");
} else {
echo("$emailInvalid is not a valid email address");
}
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Note, if this code seems familiar, I admit that I modified the example given here :)
However if you insist on using a regex, here is one way to do so:
<?php
$emailA = "john1#here.com";
$emailB = "john1#here#.com";
function validateEmail( $email ){
$regex = "/^[a-zA-Z0-9.]+#[a-zA-Z0-9.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}/";
$error = "\nOnly letters, numbers, dot and # are allowed";
echo (preg_match($regex,$email))? "$email is valid\n" : "$error - $email is invalid\n";
return true;
}
validateEmail( $emailA );
validateEmail( $emailB );
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It might seem kind of odd to have validateEmail() return true whether an email is valid or invalid. The return value can be useful if you need to verify that this function actually executed; see example here.
I have a registration form that uses any kind of emails for registration. I want to restrict it to company mail id's only. In other words, no free email service provider's mail id would work for registration.
How about a white/black list of domains like the following:
$domainWhitelist = ['companydomain.org', 'companydomain.com'];
$domainBlacklist = ['gmail.com', 'hotmail.com'];
$domain = array_pop(explode('#', $email));
//white list
if(in_array($domain, $domainWhitelist)) {
//allowed
}
//black list
if(!in_array($domain, $domainBlacklist)) {
//allowed
}
Since you have not provided any additional information as to how E-mail addresses are being defined and/or entered into a form or not, am submitting the following using PHP's preg_match() function, along with b and i pattern delimiters and an array.
b - word boundary
i - case insensitive
http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php
The following will match against "gmail" or "Gmail" etc. should someone want to trick the system.
Including Hotmail, Yahoo. You can add to the array.
<?php
$_POST['email'] = "email#Gmail.com";
$data = $_POST['email'];
if(preg_match("/\b(hotmail|gmail|yahoo)\b/i", $data)){
echo " Found free Email service.";
exit;
}
else{
echo "No match found for free Email service.";
exit;
}
Actually, you can use:
if(preg_match("/(hotmail|gmail|yahoo)/i", $data))
instead of:
if(preg_match("/\b(hotmail|gmail|yahoo)\b/i", $data))
which gave the same results.
i am trying to find the common errors users have while entering email ids. I can always validate EMAIL using PHP Email Filter
$email = "someone#exa mple.com";
if(!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
echo "E-mail is not valid";
}
else
{
echo "E-mail is valid";
}
or pattern matching
$email = test_input($_POST["email"]);
if (!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\#[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/",$email))
{
$emailErr = "Invalid email format";
}
I agree that these are not full proof ways to validate emails. However they should capture 80% of cases.
What I want is - Which position email became invalid? if its a space, at what position user had entered space. or did it fail because of "." in the end?
Any pointers?
-Ajay
PS : I have seen other thread regarding email validations. I can add complexity and make it 100%. concern here is to capture the most common mistakes made by people when entering Email ID.
This is difficult because sometimes it's not always a single character that makes an email address invalid. The example you give could easily be solved by:
$position = strpos('someone#exa mple.com', ' ');
However, it seems you are not interested in an all encompassing solution but rather something that will catch the majority of character based errors. I would take the approach of using the regular expression but capture each section of the email address in a sub pattern for further validation. For example:
$matches = null;
$result = preg_match("/(([\w\-]+)\#([\w\-]+)\.([\w\-]+))/", $email, $matches);
var_dump($matches);
By capturing sections of the regex validation in sub patterns you could then dive further into each section and run similar or different tests to determine where the user went wrong. For example you could try and match up the TLD of the email address against a whitelist. Of course there are also much more robust email validators in frameworks like Zend or Symfony that will tell you more specifically WHY an email address is not valid, but in terms of knowing which specific character position is at fault (assuming it's a character that is at fault) I think a combination of tactics would work best.
There is no way I know of in Java to report back the point at which a regex failed. What you could do is start building a set of common errors (as described by Manu) that you can check for (this might or might not use regex expressions). Then categorize into these known errors and 'other', counting the frequency of each. When an 'other' error occurs, develop a regex that would catch it.
If you want some assistance with tracking down why the regex failed you could use a utility such as regexbuddy, shown in this answer.
Just implement some checks on your own:
Point at the end:
if(substr($email, -1) == '.')
echo "Please remove the point at the end of you email";
Spaces found:
$spacePos = strpos($email, ' ');
if(spacePos !== false)
echo "Please remove the space at pos: ".$spacePos;
And so on...
First of all, I would like to say that the reason your example fails is not the space. It is the lack of '.' in former part and lack of '#' in the latter part.
If you input
'someone#example.co m' or 's omeone#example.com', it will success.
So you may need 'begin with' and 'end with' pattern to check strictly.
There is no exist method to check where a regular expression match fails as I know since check only gives the matches, but if you really want to find it out , we can do something by 'break down' the regular expression.
Let's take a look at your example check.
preg_match ("/^[\w\-]+\#[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+$/",'someone#example.com.');
If it fails, you can check where its 'sub expression' successes and find out where the problem is:
$email = "someone#example.com.";
if(!preg_match ("/^[\w\-]+\#[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+$/",$email)){ // fails because the final '.'
if(preg_match("/^[\w\-]+\#[\w\-]+\./",$email,$matches)){ // successes
$un_match = "[\w\-]+"; // What is taken from the tail of the regular expression.
foreach ($matches as $match){
$email_tail = str_replace($match,'',$email); // The email without the matching part. in this case : 'com.'
if(preg_match('/^'.$un_match.'/',$email_tail,$match_tails)){ // Check and delete the part that tail match the sub expression. In this example, 'com' matches /[\w\-]+/ but '.' doesn't.
$result = str_replace($match_tails[0],'',$email_tail);
}else{
$result = $email_tail;
}
}
}
}
var_dump($result); // you will get the last '.'
IF you understand the upper example, then we can make our solution more common, for instance, something like below:
$email = 'som eone#example.com.';
$pattern_chips = array(
'/^[\w\-]+\#[\w\-]+\./' => '[\w\-]+',
'/^[\w\-]+\#[\w\-]+/' => '\.',
'/^[\w\-]+\#/' => '[\w\-]+',
'/^[\w\-]+/' => '\#',
);
if(!preg_match ("/^[\w\-]+\#[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+$/",$email)){
$result = $email;
foreach ($pattern_chips as $pattern => $un_match){
if(preg_match($pattern,$email,$matches)){
$email_tail = str_replace($matches[0],'',$email);
if(preg_match('/^'.$un_match.'/',$email_tail,$match_tails)){
$result = str_replace($match_tails[0],'',$email_tail);
}else{
$result = $email_tail;
}
break;
}
}
if(empty($result)){
echo "There has to be something more follows {$email}";
}else{
var_dump($result);
}
}else{
echo "success";
}
and you will get output:
string ' eone#example.com.' (length=18)
I am new to PHP (not programming overall), and having problems with this simple line of code. I want to check whether some input field has been filled as anysymbolornumber#anysymbolornumber just for checking whether correct email was typed. I don't get any error, but the whole check system doesn't work. Here is my code and thanks!
if ($email = "[a-zA-Z0-9]#[a-zA-Z0-9]")
{
Since your new to php , i suggest you should buy a book or read an tutorial or two.
For email validation you should use filter_var an build in function that comes with with php 5.2 and up :
<?php
if(!filter_var("someone#example....com", FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){
echo("E-mail is not valid");
}else{
echo("E-mail is valid");
}
?>
you can use other functions .. instead of regular expressions
if(filter_var($email,FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){
echo "Valid email";
}else{
echo "Not a valid email";
}
As correctly pointed out in the comments, the regex you are using isn't actually a very good way of validating the email. There are much better ways, but if you are just wanting to get a look at how regular expressions work, it is a starting point. I am not an expert in regex, but this will at least get your if statement working :)
if(preg_match("[a-zA-Z0-9]#[a-zA-Z0-9]",$email)
{
// Your stuff
}
It looks like you're trying to verify that an email address matches a certain pattern. But you're not using the proper function. You probably want something like preg_match( $pattern, $target ).
Also, your regex isn't doing what you would want anyway. In particular, you need some quantifiers, or else your email addresses will only be able to consist of one character ahead of the #, and one after. And you need anchors at the beginning and end of the sequence so that you're matching against the entire address, not just the two characters closest to the #.
Consider this:
if( preg_match("^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+#[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$", $email ) ) {
// Whatever
}
Keep in mind, however, that this is really a poor-man's approach to validating an email address. Email addresses can contain a lot more characters than those listed in the character class I provided. Furthermore, it would also be possible to construct an invalid email address with those same character classes. It doesn't even begin to deal with Unicode. Using a regex to validate an email address is quite difficult. Friedl takes a shot at it in Mastering Regular Expressions (O'Reilly), and his effort takes a 2KB regular expression pattern. At best, this is only a basic sanity check. It's not a secure means of verifying an email address. At worst, it literally misses valid regexes, and still matches invalid ones.
There is the mailparse_rfc822_parse_addresses function which is more reliable in detecting and matching email addresses.
You need to use preg_match to run the regular expression.
Now you're setting the $email = to the regular expression.
It could look like:
if ( preg_match("[a-zA-Z0-9]#[a-zA-Z0-9]", $email ))
Also keep in mind when matching in an if you must use the == operator.
I believe best pratice would be to use a filter_var instead like:
if( ! filter_var( $email , FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL )) {
// Failed.
}
Another way taken from: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9585
function check_email_address($email) {
// First, we check that there's one # symbol,
// and that the lengths are right.
if (!ereg("^[^#]{1,64}#[^#]{1,255}$", $email)) {
// Email invalid because wrong number of characters
// in one section or wrong number of # symbols.
return false;
}
// Split it into sections to make life easier
$email_array = explode("#", $email);
$local_array = explode(".", $email_array[0]);
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($local_array); $i++) {
if
(!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&
↪'*+/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$",
$local_array[$i])) {
return false;
}
}
// Check if domain is IP. If not,
// it should be valid domain name
if (!ereg("^\[?[0-9\.]+\]?$", $email_array[1])) {
$domain_array = explode(".", $email_array[1]);
if (sizeof($domain_array) < 2) {
return false; // Not enough parts to domain
}
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($domain_array); $i++) {
if
(!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])|
↪([A-Za-z0-9]+))$",
$domain_array[$i])) {
return false;
}
}
}
return true;
}
I use the filter_var PHP function to validate email address when a user signs up to my site.
I use this code from the post:
$email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
then later I do:
if(!$email) {
// return to the form
}
else {
// send registration info
}
now when I var_dump($email), I get the output:
string(23) "user."name"#example.com"
I would like to know why this does not return false. I think the double quotes are not acceptable, so why does PHP say it’s valid?
It is a valid email address :
A quoted string may exist as a dot separated entity within the
local-part or it may exist when the outermost quotes are the outermost
chars of the local-part (e.g. abc."defghi".xyz#example.com or
"abcdefghixyz"#example.com are allowed. abc"defghi"xyz#example.com is
not; neither is abc\"def\"ghi#example.com).
I had the same problem (see Dalmas on why it's valid) and here's how I fixed it:
filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
eg:
$email = 'user."name"#example.com';
$email = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
will output:
string(21) "user.name#example.com"
Then you can validate the email using your validation.
you can get more information on the php site