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Email

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Email¶

Validates that a value is a valid email address. The underlying value is cast to a string before being validated.

Applies to	property or method
Options	message checkMX checkHost
Class	`Email`
Validator	`EmailValidator`

Basic Usage¶

YAML

# src/BlogBundle/Resources/config/validation.yml
Acme\BlogBundle\Entity\Author:
    properties:
        email:
            - Email:
                message: The email "{{ value }}" is not a valid email.
                checkMX: true

Annotations

// src/Acme/BlogBundle/Entity/Author.php
namespace Acme\BlogBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    /**
     * @Assert\Email(
     *     message = "The email '{{ value }}' is not a valid email.",
     *     checkMX = true
     * )
     */
     protected $email;
}

XML

<!-- src/Acme/BlogBundle/Resources/config/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="Acme\BlogBundle\Entity\Author">
        <property name="email">
            <constraint name="Email">
                <option name="message">The email "{{ value }}" is not a valid email.</option>
                <option name="checkMX">true</option>
            </constraint>
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>

PHP

// src/Acme/BlogBundle/Entity/Author.php
namespace Acme\BlogBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('email', new Assert\Email(array(
            'message' => 'The email "{{ value }}" is not a valid email.',
            'checkMX' => true,
        )));
    }
}

Options¶

message¶

type: string default: This value is not a valid email address

This message is shown if the underlying data is not a valid email address.

checkMX¶

type: Boolean default: false

If true, then the checkdnsrr PHP function will be used to check the validity of the MX record of the host of the given email.

checkHost¶

New in version 2.1: The checkHost option was added in Symfony 2.1

type: Boolean default: false

If true, then the checkdnsrr PHP function will be used to check the validity of the MX or the A or the AAAA record of the host of the given email.

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