Email Helper

The Email Helper provides some assistive methods for working with Email. For a more robust email solution, see revIgniter's Email Library.

Loading this Helper

This helper is loaded using the following code:

loadHelper "email"

The following methods are available:

validEmail("email")

Checks if an email is a correctly formatted email. Note, that this doesn't actually prove the email will recieve mail, simply that it is a validly formed address.

It returns TRUE/FALSE

loadHelper "email"

if validEmail("email@somesite.com") is TRUE then
    put "email is valid" into gData["emailCheck"]
else
    put "email is not valid" into gData["emailCheck"]
end if

sendEmail("recipient", "subject", "message", "sender", "cc", "bcc")

Sends an email using Mail. For a more robust email solution, see revIgniter's Email Library.

It returns TRUE/FALSE