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A.C.Balaji
A.C.Balaji

Reputation: 1113

simple way to identify the user is having the account in Gmail?

Do any one say which is the simple way to identify the user is having the account in Gmail ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 161

Answers (4)

Geoffrey
Geoffrey

Reputation: 5432

Use the built-in PHP function stripos which will return False if the email address string does not contain "gmail" (all gmail email accounts, which do not use mail forwarding, contain the "gmail" string).

if (stripos($user_email_address, "gmail"))
{
    echo "We have a gmail user!";
}

Upvotes: 0

Dutchie432
Dutchie432

Reputation: 29170

Why don't you ask the user to sign in with their email address and see for yourself if it's a gmail account?

Upvotes: 1

mpdonadio
mpdonadio

Reputation: 2941

Do a DNS query on the domain portion of the email address and check the MX records to see if they are the ones for Gmail. This should cover both normal Gmail addresses, as well as domains using Gmail.

Upvotes: 3

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 888087

You cannot automatically determine whether an arbitrary user has a Gmail account.

Instead, you can ask the user:

<input type="checkbox" name="HasGmail" />
<label for="HasGmail">Do you have a Gmail account?</label>

Upvotes: 1

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