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05Dec2008
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maichi

Validating emails with php

Sanitizing and validating email syntax $email = $_POST['email']; //getting the posted email //sanitizing the email using FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL //removes all illegal e-mail characters from a string $email=filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL); //validating the email using FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL //validates e-mail returning true if valid and false if invalid (filter_var($field,

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04Dec2008
Author
maichi

Sending emails with php

Set up the variables: $to = "email@address.com"; //where the email will go $subject = "Our Subject"; //the subject $message = "The message to send"; //the message $from = "you@email.com"; //from email $header = "From: $from"; //header including the from email Sending the email: mail($to, $subject, $message, $header); //send the email Sending the email and

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03Dec2008
Author
maichi

Ternary Conditionals

I know most of you allready use them, but there are still people that don`t know about them, so to make the following tutorials easyer, I`ll do a small example. First of all you must know that all you will see here is a simpler way to write not so complex if statements. Traditional way: if (condition) { echo "true"; } else { echo "false"; } The shorter way: echo

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