How to handle invalide email exception in cakephp? - email

Question

I have a list of array. There are some invalid emails inside an array. i.e:
$to = array('sattar.kuet#gmail.com','sas dsad .com');
Here sattar.kuet#gmail.com is an valid mail but sas dsad .com is not a valid email. So if I want to send email with this recipients ($to) there will be occurred a fatal error for sas dsad .com. So How can I ignore these invalid email?
N.B: I am using cakephp 2.6.7

Answer 1

CakeEmail throws SocketException if the email address is not well constructed. Just catch the exception and ignore it.
Option 1: Send multiple emails
$email = new CakeEmail();
$to = array('sattar.kuet#gmail.com','sas dsad .com');
foreach ($to as $emailAddress) {
try {
$email->to($emailAddress);
$email->send();
} catch(SocketException $e) {
//Do nothing
}
$email->reset();
}
Option 2: Send a single email
$email = new CakeEmail();
$to = array('sattar.kuet#gmail.com','sas dsad .com');
foreach ($to as $emailAddress) {
try {
$email->addTo($emailAddress);
} catch(SocketException $e) {
//Do nothing
}
}
$email->send();
See CakeEmail::addTo().

Answer 2

You can remove all invalid email with following code :
<?php
$len=count($array);
for ($i=0;$i<$len;$i++)
if (preg_match('^[a-z0-9!#$%&*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:.[a-z0-9!#$%&*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*#(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?.)+(?:[a-z]{2,4}|museum|travel)$/i',$array[$i]))
echo $array[$i];
?>
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