phpmailerHow can I use PHPMailer to validate email addresses?

PHPMailer is a library that can be used to validate email addresses. It provides a set of functions to validate the syntax of email addresses, check if the domain part of the address exists, and check if the email address can receive messages.

Example code

<?php
// include the PHPMailer library
require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

// create a new PHPMailer object
$mail = new PHPMailer();

// validate an email address
$valid = $mail->validateAddress('[email protected]');

if ($valid) {
    echo 'The email address is valid';
} else {
    echo 'The email address is not valid';
}

Output example

The email address is valid

The code above uses the following parts:

• require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php' - This line includes the PHPMailer library.
• $mail = new PHPMailer() - This line creates a new PHPMailer object.
• $valid = $mail->validateAddress('[email protected]') - This line validates the email address [email protected].
• if ($valid) {...} else {...} - This block checks the result of the validation and prints a message.

For more information, see the PHPMailer documentation.

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