[Phpwm] Simple PHP Contact Form

[Alex Mace]

Apart from the fact that eregi was deprecated in PHP 5.3 and will be  
removed in 6...

Alex

On 13 Oct 2009, at 23:09, <phil at infolinkelectronics.co.uk> wrote:

>
>> You'd be best off performing some sort of regular expression match -
>> or using the filter extension ...
>>
>> $email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
>> if(!$email) {
>>        // invalid email address
>> }
>> (Requires PHP5, I think my syntax/usage is correct, but I've not
>> checked it)
>
> The regex is (acting on the incoming variable $emaila)
>
> if (!eregi ("^([a-z0-9_]|\\-|\\.)+@(([a-z0-9_]|\\-)+\\.)+[a-z]{2,4}$",
> $emaila)) error_alert("Invalid Email Address");
>
> where:-
>
> function error_alert($msg){global $flag; $flag = 1; echo
> "<script>alert(\"Error: $msg\");history.go(-1)</script>";}
>
> Thats from a page where the form, validation and sending are done as  
> three
> invocations via a switch, case, do something and break method. a -1  
> history
> kickback works.
> The eregi bit should be fairly PHP version unspecific though.
>
> Regards,
>
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