PHP FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL filter

Definition and usage

The FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL filter removes all illegal e-mail characters from the string.

This filter allows all letters, numbers, and $-_.+!*'{}|^~[]`#%/?@&=

Name: "email"

ID-number: 517

Example

 <?php$var="some(one)@example.com";var_dump(filter_var($var, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL));?>

The output of the code looks like this:

 string(19) "[email protected]"