Email "list" validatator

stp

Hey

First of all, thank you for the excellent program for the datatables editor. I love this program and it is about to bring more kick to my programming.

My problem is checking the multiple email address format.
I have New Email form to put emails-addresses to multiple recipients, like CC and BCC.

I use the following validation code...

Field::inst( 'email' )
->validator( Validate::email(
ValidateOptions::inst()
->allowEmpty( false )
->optional( false )
) );

But I need checking for multiple email addresses validation so array(), and this validation check only one address.

So i need to check list, like: name1@company.fi; name2@company.fi; name3@company.fi; name4@company.fi;

I use datatables editor DataTable --> Create New entry

Thanks and sorry my poor english language...

allan

Hi,

What you would need to do is create a custom validator. It would split the string on the semi colon, and then use PHP's built in e-mail validation to check that each one is a valid address (in a for loop).

Allan

rf1234

Thanks for this!

I like examples. So here is one implementing Allan's suggestion. The user may enter either nothing or a comma / semi colon separated list (for the Germans) of email addresses. I only save a comma separated list etc.

outside of the Editor instance: error messages:

if ($lang === 'de') {     
    $msg[0] = 'Feld darf nicht leer sein.';
    $msg[1] = 'Bitte geben Sie eine Zahl ein.';
    $msg[2] = 'Bitte nur Pdf, MS Office oder Open Office Dokumente hochladen.';
    $msg[3] = 'Dateien müssen kleiner als 50MB sein.';
    $msg[4] = 'Bitte wählen Sie mindestens eine Abteilung aus.';
    $msg[5] = 'Bitte geben Sie eine oder mehrere gültige E-Mail Adressen ein.'
            . 'Trennen Sie mehrere Adressen mittels Komma oder Semikolon.';

} else {
    $msg[0] = 'Field may not be empty.';
    $msg[1] = 'Please enter a number.';
    $msg[2] = 'Please upload Pdf, MS Office or Open Office documents.';
    $msg[3] = 'Files must be smaller than 50MB.';
    $msg[4] = 'Please select at least one department.';
    $msg[5] = 'Please enter one or more valid email address.'
            . 'Separate multiple addresses with commas.'; 
}

The Field instance with validator and set formatter:

Field::inst( 'report.email_addresses' )
    ->validator( function ( $val, $data, $opts ) use ( $msg ) {
        if ( is_null($val)  || $val <= '' ) {
            return true;
        }
        $emailArray = explode(',', $val);
        if ( count($emailArray) <= 1 ) {
           $emailArray = explode(';', $val); 
        }
        foreach ( $emailArray as $val ) {
            if ( ! filter_var(trim($val), FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) ) {
                return $msg[5];
            }
        }
        return true;
    } )
    ->setFormatter( function($val, $data, $opts) {
        if ( is_null($val)  || $val <= '' ) {
            return null;
        }
        $emails = str_replace(";", ",", $val);
        $emails = str_replace(" ", "", $emails);
        $emails = str_replace(",", ", ", $emails);
        return mb_strtolower($emails);
    }),