cleaning email address

[bcoffin]

If I pass an email in my GET string (such as: www.mysite.com?my_email_address@hotmail.com),

 

I noticed that parsing the GET gives me:

 

Array

(

    [my_email_address@hotmail_com] =>

)

 

What's the easiest means of changing that LAST underscore ("_") back to a period (".") ?

 

Thanks

[Jessica]

http://php.net/strrpos and http://php.net/str_replace

[bcoffin]

Thanks.. That's what I'm currently using.. it's just some ugly code.

No other ideas, eh?

[darkfreaks]

<?php

str_replace('@mysite_com','@mysite.com');?>

[Jessica]

And you'll add that for every possible domain?

BEEEEP. Wrong answer.

You could use a regex but that would be even MORE complicated and ugly.

[darkfreaks]

<?php
$stripscore = strpos($string, "_");

$string="my_email_address@hotmail_com";

if(strpos($string,"_",$string+3)) {

str_replace($stripscore,'.');}
?>

[BlueSkyIS]

but we missed the domains that end with only 2 letters....

[corbin]

You could try a weird regular expression like:

 

^(.*)_([a-z]+)([\._]{1}[a-z]+)$

[bcoffin]

I'm horrid at regex.. Will the one you offered work?

[Jessica]

WHY on earth are you trying to change the perfectly good code? Post what you have.

[bcoffin]

Even though I don't understand regex, it looks so much cleaner than these if(strrchr) or if(strrpos) tests.

Thanks all.. it's super now.

[corbin]

This is a strange question, but uhhh... Why not just do:

 

http://yoursite.com/?email=your_email@hotmail.com

 

And then you could access it through $_GET['email'], and it would show up correctly.

[corbin]

Oh, and yould could also try manipulating $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'].

[BlueSkyIS]

yes, my first thought was "how are you ending up with an underscore in the email address?"