Contact form – email in uppercase is not valid

• sambasanchez

  said

  is there a way on the contact form for the user to type uppercase emails?
  When I type a valid email in uppercase letters I get “Please enter a valid e-mail address.”

  It’s not that I will use uppercase for it, but there are some people out there who will not know what to do. The system also doesn’t specify the error.

  Thanks in advance.

  Samba.

• jeffw

  said

  You would need to customise the validation function in the ‘contact-send.php’ file…

  function ValidateEmail($email){
   
    $regex = "^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$^";
    $eregi = preg_replace($regex,'', trim($email));
      
    return empty($eregi) ? true : false;
  }

  The validation string ($regex) is a regular expression. I think something like this should do what you want…

  function ValidateEmail($email){
   
    $regex = "^[_A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*(\.[A-Za-z]{2,3})$^";
    $eregi = preg_replace($regex,'', trim($email));
      
    return empty($eregi) ? true : false;
  }

  Keep in mind that if you modify core theme files then each time you update the theme you will need to make all of those modifications again to the updated theme files.

  References:
  http://php.net/manual/en/book.pcre.php

• sambasanchez

  said

  Thank you for your quick reply!!!
  It worked like a charm!