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Ajax Email Validation in jquery

Deepak Nov 10, 2024

It is essential to validate user input email before performing actual business logic.

Email validation is required due to following reasons

  • To check whether an entered email is valid or not at the client-side using javascript/jQuery code.
  • Sanitize Email before processing to avoid illegal characters
  • Validate email from the server using ajax by sending a request to the server on LogIn/Registration form submission

Let's start learning ajax email validation in jquery with these easy steps:

jquery regex validation for email at client side

It is recommended to check user input email validity at the client-side before sending it to the server. Regular expression to check email validity at client-side :

^([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$

Lets assume email address as abc1234@quizcure.com

What above RegEx pattern mean here:

  • ^ used to match the starting position of any line.
  • $ used to match the end position of any line.
  • [a-zA-Z0-9_.+-] used to match all alphanumeric characters with respected cases mentioned in bracket [] with printable characters. In our example, it matched with the first part (abc1234) of the email address
  • [a-zA-Z0-9-] used to match the second part of the email after @. It can be any alphanumeric characters and hyphen.
  • \. used to add. (dot) and escaped.
  • [a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4}: Used to match alphanumeric characters as mentioned within brackets with 2 to 4 of preceding characters only.

There is another way to rewrite the above regulate expression in the following manner

^[\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$

Anyways actual email validity confirm by successfully sending email to inbox. Visit Here for detail about regEx different use cases

Lets conclude the above explanation with the following example code

<script>
    $(document).ready(function () {

        function isValidEmail(email) {

            var regex = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
            return regex.test(email);
        }

        $("form").submit(function (event) {

            if (isValidEmail($("#email").val())) {
                $("#result").html("Valid Email");
            } else {
                   $("#result").html("InValid Email");
            }
            
             event.preventDefault();
        });
       
    });

</script>
   

Html form

<div id="result"> </div>
<form method="post" id="demo" >
    <input type="text" name="email" id="email" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter your Email">
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submitBtn" id="submitBtn" >
</form>
 

Explanation:

  • Lets suppose we have a form with email input.
  • Checking user input email on form submit. within $("form").submit Code block will be executed once submit event triggered.
  • Function isValidEmail is used here to check whether a received email is valid or not with the help of regular expression.
  • Display response message within div (with id as result )

Jquery ajax email validation in PHP

In the previous example, we see client-side email validation but it is strongly recommended to check email on the server-side as well because client-side javascript validation can be disabled.

In this section, we will see an ajax request to the server to validate the email. So lets start.

Html Form:

	<div id="result"> </div>
<form method="post" id="demo" >
    <input type="text" name="email" id="email" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter your Email">
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submitBtn" id="submitBtn" >
</form>

Explanation:

  • Created div with id as result to display validation message from client & server.
  • Cerated Form email textbox for user input.

jQuery code block:

<script>
    $(document).ready(function () {

        function isValidEmail(email) {

            var regex = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
            return regex.test(email);
        }

        $("form").submit(function (event) {

            if (isValidEmail($("#email").val())) {
                $("#result").html("Valid Email");
                
                $.ajax({
                url: './server.php', // sending ajax request to this server page
                async: false,
                type: 'post',
                dataType: "json",
                data: {
                    'email': $("#email").val()
                },
                success: function (response) {
                    $("#result").html(response.message);
                }
            });
            
            } else {
                $("#result").html("InValid Email");
            }

            
            event.preventDefault();
        });
    });

</script>
 

Here is what jQuery code means:

  • Function isValidEmail is defined to check email validity at client side. User entered email value $("#email").val() is passed to isValidEmail function.
  • Display error message in div if failed to validate email.
  • Perform an ajax request to the server by sending an email value.
  • Make async false so that it will wait for server response before processing further execution.
  • Receive JSON response (As expected from client as defined dataType: "json", ) & Display response message from the server on success in specific div

Server side code block:

<?php

if (empty($_POST['email'])) {
    $data['success'] = false;
    $data['message'] = 'Email is required.';
} else {

    $email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);

    $isAvailable = isEmailAvailable($email);

  
    if ( $isAvailable) {
        $data['success'] = false;
        $data['message'] = 'Email is already registered with us';
    } else {
        $data['success'] = true;
        $data['message'] = 'Email is New';
    }
}

function isEmailAvailable($email) {

    try {
        $host = 'localhost';
        $db = 'test';
        $user = 'user';
        $pwd = 'pwd';


        $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$host; dbname=$db", $user, $pwd);

        $isEmailExistSql = "select  email  from tbl_user where email = ?";

        $stmt = $conn->prepare($isEmailExistSql);
        $stmt->execute(array($email));

        $count = $stmt->rowCount();
       
        return $count > 0 ? true: false;
        
    } catch (PDOException $e) {
        echo $e->getMessage();
    }
}

echo json_encode($data);
?>
 

Here is what the server code means:

  • Here PHP is used on the server-side for demonstration purposes. You can use any server-side language.
  • Check for empty email at the server and return success: false if empty.
  • filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL) used to remove illegal characters from email string.
  • function isEmailAvailable is defined to check email from a database table. PHP PDO prepared a statement used here to query the database table.
  • isEmailAvailable returns true if the database table contains a record with a given email otherwise returns false.

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Deepak

Deepak

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