Importing email addresses like o'malley@domain.com

[dave3]

Hi,

I looked around for a solution to this but I am unable to import email addresses with apostrophes in them like prud'homme@mail.com or o'malley@mail.com etc..  I have tried backslashing the apostrophe  ie \'  and using the entity value to no avail.

Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance

Dave

[DW]

Try changing this in admin.php:

Code: [Select]

if(!function_exists('valid_email')){
 function valid_email($xe) {
  if(strpos($xe,'\\')===true) return false;
  if(ereg("^[\._a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.([a-z]){2,4})$", strtolower($xe))){
   return true;
  } else {
   return false;
  }
 }
}
To this:

Code: [Select]


if(!function_exists('valid_email')){
 function valid_email($xe) {
  if(strpos($xe,'\\')===true) return false;
  if(ereg("^[\._a-z0-9'-]+(\.[_a-z0-9'-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.([a-z]){2,4})$", strtolower($xe))){
   return true;
  } else {
   return false;
  }
 }
}
I have updated the code for future releases.

Regards

[dave3]

Thanks Dean,

I will do that before my next import!

Dave