PHP 5 & mail filter

> Hi,
>
> I've been playing with ' if(!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
> '
> on my server and it seems to be working 100%. Pretty handy.
>
> Any ideas where I could find a summary of the e-mail formats the filter
> checks?
>
> So far it's evading me. The Manual and w3schools just send me in
> circles, and Google has been even less help so far. I'd probably be
> happy if I could even find an RFC it was written against.
>
> TIA,
>
> Twayne
>
>
>
>
>

> Twayne schreef:
>> Hi,
>> I've been playing with ' if(!filter_var($email,
>> FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) '
>> on my server and it seems to be working 100%. Pretty handy.
>> Any ideas where I could find a summary of the e-mail formats the
>> filter checks?
>> So far it's evading me. The Manual and w3schools just send me in
>> circles, and Google has been even less help so far. I'd probably be
>> happy if I could even find an RFC it was written against.
>> TIA,
>> Twayne
> http://us3.php.net/manual/hu/ref.filter.php#filter.constants

do. I'm pleased to be right, but confused too now<g>!

>> Twayne schreef:
>>> Hi,
>>> I've been playing with ' if(!filter_var($email,
>>> FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) '
>>> on my server and it seems to be working 100%. Pretty handy.
>>> Any ideas where I could find a summary of the e-mail formats the
>>> filter checks?
>>> So far it's evading me. The Manual and w3schools just send me in
>>> circles, and Google has been even less help so far. I'd probably be
>>> happy if I could even find an RFC it was written against.
>>> TIA,
>>> Twayne
>> http://us3.php.net/manual/hu/ref.filter.php#filter.constants
>
> Finally! Meaningful, specific descriptions; thank you!
>
> Strange; I've been all over that same site and not found those; the
> English language version of that very same page doesn't include all of
> that information. I have a feeling some cell heights got borked along
> the line or something.
> Maybe I should be looking at the Hungarian versions more often!
> The real reason I asked the question though was for validation of the
> information: some of the filters I'm testing aren't doing precisely what
> the us3.php.net... table says they're doing and I thought they should
> do. I'm pleased to be right, but confused too now<g>!
>
> Thanks much, I'll likely be back!
>
> Twayne
>
>

> Twayne schreef:
>>> Twayne schreef:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I've been playing with ' if(!filter_var($email,
>>>> FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) '
>>>> on my server and it seems to be working 100%. Pretty handy.
>>>> Any ideas where I could find a summary of the e-mail formats the
>>>> filter checks?
>>>> So far it's evading me. The Manual and w3schools just send me in
>>>> circles, and Google has been even less help so far. I'd probably
>>>> be happy if I could even find an RFC it was written against.
>>>> TIA,
>>>> Twayne
>>> http://us3.php.net/manual/hu/ref.filter.php#filter.constants
>> Finally! Meaningful, specific descriptions; thank you!
>> Strange; I've been all over that same site and not found those; the
>> English language version of that very same page doesn't include all
>> of that information. I have a feeling some cell heights got borked
>> along the line or something.
>> Maybe I should be looking at the Hungarian versions more often!
>> The real reason I asked the question though was for validation of
>> the information: some of the filters I'm testing aren't doing
>> precisely what the us3.php.net... table says they're doing and I
>> thought they should do. I'm pleased to be right, but confused too
>> now<g>! Thanks much, I'll likely be back!
>> Twayne
> Oeps, i did not notice the '/hu/' in the url.... ;-)
> But i found another reason why this info is not on php.net
> Its: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.filter-list.php
> This function returns a list of supported filters,
> So its not upto PHP to give info on what the supported filters do, if
> its a list which is returned from an external call ?
> so, via:
>

> i found:
> http://nl3.php.net/filter
> which brought me to:
>

> happy reading... ;-)