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Title: Email validation seems too restrictive vs RFC?
Post by: teppyogi on May 05, 2021, 07:05:53 PM
Hello,

I have tried to register into AbanteCart for testing purposes using myAddress+test1@gmail.com but got a validation error. Looking up validation rules, I stumbled on this post (https://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,5929.msg25381.html#msg25381), in which a core developer mentions that the validation regexp is:
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define('EMAIL_REGEX_PATTERN','/^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]{0,61}[A-Z0-9]\.[A-Z]{2,16}$/i');

This would explain why I get a validation error, but I am surprised the validation is not done with respect to the RFC, which you can look up on Wikipedia at the Email_address entry (I cannot post the link)...

Argument: the case for avoiding such addresses can be made since, in fact, it bypasses the 1 account per person rule. However, allowing such cases for testing purposes seems worthwhile. Also, validation imho should be just that: making sure the field has been validly populated. I regularly pest at websites which forbid me to use + in addresses because it is super practical for email classification. Therefore I would like it if my website were to avoid being in this category :-)

Questions: am I missing a setting anywhere? If not, should this become a feature in a future version? and in the meantime, how can I provide my own validation regexp?

Thanks! Tepp.
Title: Re: Email validation seems too restrictive vs RFC?
Post by: Basara on May 06, 2021, 06:56:38 AM
Hello.
Feel free to modify the EMAIL_REGEX_PATTERN
Title: Re: Email validation seems too restrictive vs RFC?
Post by: teppyogi on May 06, 2021, 09:23:49 AM
Thanks, I was not aware this was located in a unique spot, which is great! For those who are looking to do the same thing, here is what I did:

This was simply adapted for accepting the plus (+) sign into an email address, which is a personal favorite feature of mine in email management. It is by no means an RFC compliant validator, as I have learned since that doing such a validator is both complex and limited in terms of how effective it is at weeding out bad inputs.

Thanks again for the help! Tepp
Title: Re: Email validation seems too restrictive vs RFC?
Post by: Basara on May 07, 2021, 01:49:02 AM
Thank you for posting a solution