Merge pull request #1319 from timw4mail/email

Make valid_email helper function more accurate

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/system/libraries/Email.php b/system/libraries/Email.php
index dd5477e05..0fcdbd83e 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Email.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Email.php
@@ -706,9 +706,9 @@ class CI_Email {
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	public function valid_email($address)
+	public function valid_email($email)
 	{
-		return (bool) preg_match('/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix', $address);
+		return filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/libraries/Form_validation.php b/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
index 8e03e91f3..f3087f883 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Form_validation.php
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ class CI_Form_validation {
 	 */
 	public function valid_email($str)
 	{
-		return (bool) preg_match('/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix', $str);
+		return filter_var($str, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------