Function eregi() is deprecated, any replacement?

[alexan]

Hi

I'm using CcMail newsletter in my website and the logs of apache are full of

PHP Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated

I did a search in the code and i have found the function in a couple of places.
The first one is like below to check if the three variables are numeric with values 0-9,
Any suggestion of how can i replace this?

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eregi("^[0-9]+$", $applied_settings['max_displayed_recipients'])

Also in another file it checks if the email address is valid,
any suggestion on that?

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function validate_email($email)
{
   $regexp = "^[A-Za-z0-9](([_\.\-]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*)@([A-Za-z0-9]+)(([\.\-]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*)\.([A-Za-z]{2,})$";
   if (eregi($regexp, $email)) return true;
   else return false;
}

and the third place i have found the code is

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eregi("\.ccmail$", $file)

and i don't understand what it does, does it have to do with the extension of the file?

Thank you for your time
Alex

[egami]

preg_match() will probably be your best bet.

[alexan]

Thank you for your reply,

so there is no regular expression function in php any more,
how can anybody replaced with it with a substring search function?

I have also searched for a email validation code in php,
every single piece of code i found was using eregi().

I see a lot of websites having problems when eregi() is removed.

Alex

[Nullsig]

so there is no regular expression function in php any more,

As egami stated "preg_match() will probably be your best bet."

eregi uses POSIX for its regular expressions, preg uses PERL. You will need to rewrite your expressions to fit the PERL syntax but it is faster than eregi which is why ereg has been deprecated.

[alexan]

Thank you for your reply

It was my mistake actually , i thought that the preg_match was a substring search function but it is actually a similar regular expression function.

Alex

[ffnick]

eregi functionality have been replaced with preg_match.
Hopefully my hack of ccmail scripts will help ccmail users to get ccmail working enough to export their mailing list. I am not a fluent PHP nor Perl coder. Please do not ask me to help.
I am using ccmail version 1.02 so files may be different.

eregi appears in two files
admin.php and functions/shared.php

First of all overwrite eregi with preg_match in both files.
Then wrap the strings in / and /i

In admin.php on line 585 replace

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if (eregi("^[0-9]+$", $applied_settings['max_displayed_recipients']) && eregi("^[0-9]+$", $applied_settings['pause_for']) && eregi("^[0-9]+$", $applied_settings['pause_every']))

with

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if (preg_match("/^[0-9]+$/i", $applied_settings['max_displayed_recipients']) && preg_match("/^[0-9]+$/i", $applied_settings['pause_for']) && preg_match("/^[0-9]+$/i", $applied_settings['pause_every']))

In functions/shared.php on line 45 replace

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 if (eregi('$regexp', '$email')) return true;

with

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if (preg_match('/$regexp/i', '$email')) return true;


Hope that helps.
Then export your collected email addresses and use another free mailing list.