Email Verification in PHP

verifyEmail.php

	//Function to check email validity
	function checkEmail($email) {
  		if (!ereg("^[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{1,255}$", $email)) {
    	// Email invalid because wrong number of characters or @s
    		return false;
  		}
  		// Split it into sections to make shit easy
	  	$email_array = explode("@", $email);
		$local_array = explode(".", $email_array[0]);
  		for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($local_array); $i++) {
    		if
			(!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&
			↪'*+/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$",
			$local_array[$i])) {
			//Validate that shit	
      			return false;
    		}
 		 }
  		if (!ereg("^\[?[0-9\.]+\]?$", $email_array[1])) {
    		$domain_array = explode(".", $email_array[1]);
   			if (sizeof($domain_array) < 2) {
        		return false; // Not enough parts to domain
    		}
    		for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($domain_array); $i++) {
      			if
				(!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])|
				↪([A-Za-z0-9]+))$",$domain_array[$i])) {
        			return false;
      			}
   			}
  		}
  		return true;
	}

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