How can I verify an email address in PHP? [duplicate]

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How can I verify an email address in PHP?

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If you want to check if an email address exists, check out checkdnsrr:

if (checkdnsrr('you@user.com', 'MX')) {
    echo ':)';
}
else {
   echo ':(';
}

If you want to check if a string is an email address, there are literally millions of regulars expressions out there. There's a native function in php, filter_input that does it, thought I've personally never used it.

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filter_var($input, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)

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function isemail($email) {
    return strlen($email) > 6 && preg_match("/^[\w\-\.]+@[\w\-\.]+(\.\w+)+$/", $email);
}