email format not being accepted

Someone is trying to register on our client's site via the standard SecurityAssist registration form but they want to use an email address with one of the new domain types - it has a .solutions suffix instead of .com or .co.uk This isn't being accepted as a valid email address. How do I allow this email address format in the email field validation?

Open the file: wavt_scripts_php.php included on your page.

Then find the line:
$knownDomsPat = "/^(com|net|org|edu|int|mil|gov|arpa|biz|aero|name|coop|info|pro|museum|cat|\w{2,2})$/";

and update it to:
$knownDomsPat = "/^(com|net|org|edu|int|mil|gov|arpa|biz|aero|name|coop|info|pro|museum|cat|solutions|\w{2,2})$/";

That's great, thanks!

Hi Ray, sorry, I thought it was fixed but it's not - the forms on the site still won't accept the .solutions email format. Could you take a look for me? FTP details in PM section. Don't know if it's any help but I also added .guru to the list and that works fine - I'm wondering if there's a max number of characters allowed?

I see... yes that just fixed server validation. The client validation also has issues.

The solution is to either update the pattern attribute of the email field. It is currently set to:
pattern="[^@]+@[^@]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}"

that only allows 2-6 characters after the last ".". You could change it to:
pattern="[^@]+@[^@]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,10}"

That would allow up to 10.

An even better solution would be to change it from type="text" to type="email" and remove the pattern attribute entirely.

Hi Ray, I went through every form on the site, changed the email fields to type="email" and removed the pattern and it's all working perfectly now thanks! It may be worth updating this in future releases of Data Bridge/Form Toolkit as it currently inserts email form fields as text with a pattern, and as there are now so many additional TLDs out there this is likely to be an issue for more and more people. Thanks for your help!