PHP FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL Filter

Definition and Usage

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

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

  • Name: "email"
  • ID-number: 517

Example

<?php

var_dump(filter_var($var, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL));
?>

Output:

string(19) "someone@example.com"