PHP Email Address Validation Function

If you want to make sure that an email passed in a form or url variable is actually what you expect it to be then this function can help.

function is_email($email) {
    return preg_match('/^[a-z0-9!#$%&\'*+\/=?^`{}|~_-]+[.a-z0-9!#$%&\'*+\/=?^`{}|~_-]*@[a-z0-9]+[._a-z0-9-]*\.[a-z0-9]+$/ui', $email);
}

It simply returns true if the supplied is an email address and nothing (false) if the data passed into it isn’t one.

Clive Walkden

Posted: 28 February 2013

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