Quick Tip: Validate Email Addresses with PHP: "
Email validation is a common task that most developers have to deal with on a regular basis. Far too often the complex approach is taken (regular expressions), when PHP 5 has a super simple way to validate / sanitize your email string.
Filtering Variables the PHP 5 Way
So what is the quick method to validating emails? The function called filter_var(). This function allows you to run your variable through a filter that you specify, and can either validate the variable, or return a sanitized string depending on the filter you choose.
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