UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 7 Bug Reports Fixed Bugs [FIXED for 7.7.2] New TLDs support in email addresses

Hi all,

After searching here, I haven't found much about this.

As of 7.7.2, I couldn't register on this forum using my email address (ending in ".paris", one of the numerous TLDs now in the wild) as it's considered "invalid".
Is it a deliberate choice ? or just a slip of a too restrictive regex ?

Thanks for your help

Beyond adding an HTML5 email type to the input, the current regex hasnt been updated since at least the past 5 years (that I'm aware of) is:
It looks like it's only accepting a TLD of 2 - 4 chars. "paris" is 5, so it is determined to be invalid.


Using regex for modern email validation is quite messy. Moving forward, PHP will be used to handle submitted HTML from the end user.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.filter-var.php

...and HTML5 input type=email will catch the user entry from the input field.
In Opera it's sufficient to enter just *@* for the input to be accepted. In Safari, Chrome and Firefox you need to enter at least *@-.-. Obviously neither example is very limiting, but it will prevent people from entering completely wrong values, such as phone number, strings with multiple '@'s or spaces.


Thanks for catching and reporting this. it should be corrected with the UBB.thread 7.7.2 release!

Yay, thanks for your help :-)