Issue with isValidEmail function

Hi Pault,

I was able to replicate the issue, and I've passed this on to a senior developer to look into. I'll get back to you once we've got a fix for the issue.

Thanks

Greg

Hi pault, 

I've updated the code for the next release to accept ' before @ as valid email address.  

You can make this change yourself as follows:

1. Open /lib/validation_functions.php
2. Search for
   

   [\w\-]+@

3. Replace with 
   

   [\w\-\']+@\

Let me know if that works for you!

Also, I'll just add that the email standard is very complicated and allows all kinds of odd things (including comments inside email addresses).  The real world implementations are somewhat stricter, so a '@ might not work in the real world everywhere, but there's no reason why we can't support it.  Just be mindful of that if you get a bounce from a server.

I saw some references to gmail, hotmail, and facebook being picky about single quotes, but they were from a few years ago, so hopefully they're all more permissible now.

Let me know any questions!  Cheers.

Thanks Dave, this work well for me.

Regards, Paul.