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| -rw-r--r-- | system/helpers/email_helper.php | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/system/helpers/email_helper.php b/system/helpers/email_helper.php index 0516e938a..628667d4d 100644 --- a/system/helpers/email_helper.php +++ b/system/helpers/email_helper.php @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ if ( ! function_exists('valid_email')) * @param string * @return bool */ - function valid_email($address) + function valid_email($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/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst index 45e6ebc07..b28d4e543 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ Release Date: Not Released - do_hash() now uses PHP's native hash() function, supporting more algorithms. - Added an optional paramater to ``delete_files()`` to enable it to skip deleting files such as .htaccess and index.html. - Removed deprecated helper function ``js_insert_smiley()`` from smiley helper. + - Updated email helper to use ``filter_var`` to validate email addresses - Database |