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Farzad Jahanshir
5,317 PointsUsing A Third-Party Library, Build a Simple PHP Application
$mail->ValidateAddress($email); does't check the email address properly. just go to http://www.shirts4mike.com/contact.php and input a@b in the email field. It will be as a valid email address recognized!
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Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsYou're right. It's not a good way to validate an email address. If I remember correctly, they also explained that. This course is at it's core a beginners course. Validating email addresses, can be tricky. This introduces you to the idea of using a plugin to validate more complex inputs like emails, phones, or CC numbers. If you can start to understand how to implement a plugin, even in the most simplest form, you should start to be able to figure out how use a better option.
If I remember correctly, the only validation it's looking for is that there is an @ symbol, and it's not the first or last character.
Farzad Jahanshir
5,317 Pointsbetter test option for email: abc@abc
James Barnett
39,199 PointsValidating an email address is surprisingly hard, you can read about the challenges here and here
The best option is to use verimail.js