Question

Is there an easy way to check an email address is valid using Ajax? I’m using the sfValidatortEmail widget currently and this only shows an error message on submitting the form.

Thanks

Answer 1

I’m assuming you know how to write ajax requests. In the action you’d have something like

if ($request->isXmlHttpRequest()) {
  // handle ajax check
  try{
    $validator = new sfValidatorEmail();
    $validator->clean($request->getParameter('email'));
    // good to go
  } catch(sfValidatorError $e){
    // invalid email
    $this->getResponse()->setStatusCode(400);
  }
} else {
  // handle normal post
}