Sometimes, we want to validate an email address in PHP.
In this article, we’ll look at how to validate an email address in PHP.
How to validate an email address in PHP?
To validate an email address in PHP, we can use the filter_var function.
For instance, we write
if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
// ...
}
to call filter_var to check if $email is a valid email string by calling it with $email and FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL.
Conclusion
To validate an email address in PHP, we can use the filter_var function.
