[Phpwm] Simple PHP Contact Form

[Dave Holmes]

ereg was not the main problem we cam across it was the removal of the
split function which was being used in loads of places for internally
passing csv strings about the place then splitting to an array for
processing.  A real strange one to get depracated!

Alex Mace wrote:
> Nah, I didn't get caught by that, fortunately because I've never
> really used the ereg libraries, plus I had compiled PHP myself before
> I upgraded.
>
> We did get caught in work though when someone upgraded to 5.3 on one
> of the boxes we run scripts on though as a lot of our legacy code base
> does use ereg...
>
> Alex
>
> On 14 Oct 2009, at 00:25, Dave Holmes wrote:
>
>> That's sound like a man with snow leopard which foisted 5.3 in as
>> part of the upgrade ;)
>>
>> All ours app's started to moan about quite a few things...
>>
>>
>> Alex Mace wrote:
>>> 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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