A Library extending https://github.com/semplon/php-smtp-email-validation

What It Does ?

Check if email address exists via SMTP.

Requirement

• php >= 5.5

Installation

• composer require plumpboy/email-validate

Usage

...
use Plumpboy\EmailValidate\SMTPEmailValidator;
...
	// the email to validate
	$email = '[email protected]'; // $email can be array('[email protected]', '[email protected]')
	// an optional sender
	$sender = '[email protected]';
	// instantiate the class
	$SMTPValidator = new SMTPEmailValidator();
	// turn on debugging if you want to view the SMTP transaction
	$SMTPValidator->debug = true;
	// do the validation
	$results = $SMTPValidator->validate($email, $sender);
	// view results
	echo $email.' is '.($results ? 'valid' : 'invalid')."\n"; // $results[$email] when there are many emails

	// send email?
	if ($results) { // or $results['[email protected]'] if you pass many emails
		//mail($email, 'Confirm Email', 'Please reply to this email to confirm', 'From:'.$sender."\r\n"); // send email
	} else {
		echo 'The email addresses you entered is not valid';
	}

Laravel

For projects use laravel version < 5.5, add below code into config/app.php.

...
'providers' => [
	...
    Plumpboy\EmailValidate\EmailValidateServiceProvider::class,
    ...
],
...

You also can use below syntax in laravel.

$result = email_exists($emails, $sender); // use helper

...
use Plumpboy\EmailValidate\EmailValidator;
...
$result = EmailValidator::validate($email, $sender); // use facade

$result = \EmailValidator::validate($email, $sender); // or alias

if you do not pass param $sender, library will use config('mail.from.address').

Contribute

• Fork the repository and make changes on your fork in a feature branch.
• Commit messages must start with a capitalized and short summary.
• After every commit, make sure the test suite passes.
• Contributor sends pull request to release/develop branch, ask another contributor to check if possible.
• Don't push private keys, logs or any unnecessary files to git repository
• Merge when pull request got 2 OK from contributors and CI build is green.
• Merge develop to master to release final version.

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/