Posted by Bruce Gilbert on 10/20/41 11:29

I am trying to set up some validation for my php form with the email
field using the following code:

if(!eregi("^(.+)@(.+)\\.(.+)$",$_POST['email']))
{
$error_msg .= "<BR />Your email appears to be invalid.";
$ok = "false";
}


I am trying to accomplish not being able to enter anything other than
a valid email string
.....this doesn'r seem to be doing anything.

also, I want the field to appear hilighted when there is no
information so I am doing this:


<input class="<? if($error_msg){ echo "error"; } ELSE { echo
"normal"; } id="firstname" name="firstname" type="text"
value="{$_POST['firstname']}"? />"

and I have an error class set up in my CSS, such as

.error {border: 1px solid red;}

this is not doinf anything either.

Can somone point out what may be wrong with this PHP code?

thanks,

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