The EmailAddress FieldType

This field type represents an email address, in the form of a string.

Table of contents:

Description

The EmailAddress FieldType stores an email address, which is provided as a string.

Value object

Properties

The Value class of this field type contains the following properties:

Value object content example

Constructor

The EmailAddress\Value constructor will initialize a new Value object with the value provided. It accepts a string as input.

Constructor example

String representation

String representation of FieldType's Value object is the email address contained in it.

Example:

[email protected]

Hash format

Hash value for this FieldType's Value is simply the email address as a string.

Example:

[email protected]

Validation

This FieldType  uses the EmailAddressValidator validator as resource, which will test the string supplied as input against a pattern, to make sure that a valid email address has been provided.
If the validations fail a ValidationError  is thrown, specifying the error message.

Settings

This FieldType does not support settings.