Email verification with ereg

[pourmeanother]

PHP4

 

Let's say I want to verify an email a user enters with their registration to see if it's from a specific site. Example: let's say I only want users to register using an AOL email address ([email protected]), how would I check for the '@aol.com' ending?

 

<?php
//...continued from code above....
if(eregi("email", $field)
{
if(!ereg("^.+@.+\\..+$", $value))
{
$message[]="$value is not a valid email address";
}
elseif(______________)
{
$message[]="$value is not an AOL email address";
}
}
?>

 

 

Please fill in the blank. Also, let me know if everything checks out for PHP4; I've had to convert after using PHP5.

 

THANKS!

[Adam]

Quite a few ways to do it I dare say, and probs one being a regular expression but I'm not very good with them.. Though I do have a few ideas:

 

$emailArr = explode('@', $email);
if ($emailArr[1] == 'aol.com') {
     // register user
}

 

OR:

 

$pos = strpos($email, '@');
$domain = substr($email, $pos);

if ($domain == '@aol.com') {
    // register user
}

 

You should be able to condense that a bit to:

 

$domain = substr($email, strpos($email, '@'));

 

Provided you've validated it as a valid email, because it returns false if there' no occurence, which obviouslly could cause an error in substr()..

 

Adam

[pourmeanother]

Just to further check, implement like this given the code in the O.P.?

 

<?php
//....continued.....
elseif( substr($value, strpos($value, '@')) !== '@aol.com' )
{
$message[]="$value is not an AOL email address";
}
?>