validate email example

validateemails.cfm

<cfscript>
input = [
    '[email protected]',
    'bar@locahost',
    'bar"locahost'
];

foo = validateEmails(input);
writeDump(foo.hasErrors());
writeDump(foo.getErrors());



function validateEmails(emails) {

    var errors = [];
    
    var isValidEmail = function(email) {
        return isValid("email", email);
        // or if you want your own regexp
        return reFind("^[a-zA-Z][\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]@[a-zA-Z0-9][\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\.]*[a-zA-Z]$", email) > 0;
    };
    
    var registerError = function(email) {
        errors.append("#email# is not valid");    
    };

    // iterate and check the emails in the array
    emails.each(function(email) {
        if (!isValidEmail(email)) {
            // log the error (as you do in your code)
            registerError(email);
        }
    });
    
    // methods you want to return
    return {
        "hasErrors": function() {
            return arrayLen(errors) > 0;
        },
        "getErrors": function() {
            return errors;
        }
    };
}

</cfscript>