Joomla users with email domains longer than 4 letters

[dreamdest]

We have joomla users who have a .travel domain for their email, and when I go to the user manager--> add new user, it considers the email invalid. It seems that it will allow only up to a 4 characters domain. Does anyone know which file contains the code where I can change this?

Thanks

[pe7er]

I tried to reproduce this behavior in Joomla 3.3.6,
and there you can use email addresses like [email protected] without errors.

Which version do you use? The latest Joomla 2.5.27?

[dreamdest]

Yes 2.5.27

[pe7er]

Does anyone know which file contains the code where I can change this?

In Joomla 2.5 the email validation is defined in
/libraries/joomla/form/rules/email.php

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class JFormRuleEmail extends JFormRule
{
	/**
	 * The regular expression to use in testing a form field value.
	 *
	 * @var    string
	 * @since  11.1
	 */
	protected $regex = '^[\w.-]+(\+[\w.-]+)*@\w+[\w.-]*?\.\w{2,4}$';

I am not an expert in regex, but I think it specifies that a domain name should end with a TLD with 2 to 4 characters.

In Joomla 3.3.6 the email validation looks different
/libraries/joomla/form/rule/email.php

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class JFormRuleEmail extends JFormRule
{
	/**
	 * The regular expression to use in testing a form field value.
	 *
	 * @var    string
	 * @since  11.1
	 * @see    http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.email.html
	 */
	protected $regex = '^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&’*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*$';

[dreamdest]

I changed it to {2,6} and it still doesn't work

[pe7er]

I've created a bug report about it in Joomla's issue tracker:
http://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/4891

[dhuelsmann]

There are several places to change this code to ensure it works for your issue:
It is a javascript validation in /public_html/media/system/js/validate-uncompressed.js

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this.setHandler('email',
         function (value) {
            regex=/^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+(\+[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)*@([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9.-]{2,4}$/;
            return regex.test(value);

Change the {2,4} to {2,8} to accommodate your email TLD. You will also have to find that in the compressed version validate.js (a little more difficult) and change it.

Do the same in /public_html/libraries/joomla/form/rules/email.php

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protected $regex = '^[\w.-]+(\+[\w.-]+)*@\w+[\w.-]*?\.\w{2,4}$';

The above info came from this tracker item http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... m_id=28128

Unfortunately, the change in the regex they made did not fix it.