Validating an email address

ATK Howto: Validating an email address Complexity: Easy Author: Mark Wittens <mark@achievo.org>

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The validation of an email address is easy, just add the email attribute to the node with the email address like this:

 $this->add(new atkEmailAttribute("email", false, AF_OBLIGATORY));

The atkEmailAttribute contains a validation for an email address which will be called automatically, if the second parameter of the constructor is set to "true" a DNS check will be performed on the address domain as well.

Check the functions validateAddressSyntax() and validateAddressDomain() in class.atkemailattribute for details of the validation.