This Field Type represents an email address, in the form of a string.
Name
Internal name
Expected input type
EmailAddress
ezemail
string
Description
The EmailAddress Field Type stores an email address, which is provided as a string.
Value object
Properties
The Value class of this field type contains the following properties:
Property
Type
Description
$email
string
This 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 ValidationErroris thrown, specifying the error message.