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This Field Type represents an email address, in the form of a string.

NameInternal nameExpected input type
EmailAddressezemailstring

Description

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

PHP API Field Type 

Value object

Properties

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

PropertyTypeDescription
$emailstringThis property will be used for the input string provided as email address.
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 the Field Type's Value object is the email address contained in it.

Example:

someuser@example.com

Hash format

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

Example:

someuser@example.com

Validation

This Field Type uses the EmailAddressValidator validator as a 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 Field Type does not support settings.