PHP: Email Sanitization code.

So the principal thought behind this is to have a function that determines weather an email address is crap or not crap based on the functions return. Return 1, your email is bad juju, return anything else your fine.

So an example of usage:

Your going to import email leads from a database and you need to check weather the email address is valid.

Query DB -> Grab $Info + $email -> sanitize($email)
-> return(1) -> Notify of Deletion -> Query(Delete($emails))
-> return(x) -> Notify of Completion -> Query(insert($info + $email))

Php Code starts here:

/* Character Omission:
!@#$%^&*()`'/\{}~ ,<>":;[] (and unicode characters like §, ™, ®, ⚛, ⚡, ö, π, and the like)

(1) ."a" is appended due to a bug in php. Found:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-detect-encoding.php#81936 
*/

function sanitizer($email){
    $email = explode('@',$email);
    $intergity = count($email);
    if($intergity <= 2){
 $email = $email[0].$email[1];
 $email = preg_split('//', $email, -1);
 foreach($email as $char){
      if( mb_detect_encoding($char.'a', "auto") == "ASCII")
      {switch($char){ 
  case '!': { return 1; break; }
  case '?': { return 1; break; }
  case '@': { return 1; break; }
  case '#': { return 1; break; }
  case '$': { return 1; break; }
  case '&': { return 1; break; }
  case '^': { return 1; break; }
  case '>': { return 1; break; }
  case '<': { return 1; break; }
  case '&': { return 1; break; }
  case '*': { return 1; break; }
  case '(': { return 1; break; }
  case ')': { return 1; break; }
  case '`': { return 1; break; }
  case "'": { return 1; break; }
  case '/': { return 1; break; }
  case '\\': { return 1; break; }
  case ' ': { return 1; break; }
  case '{': { return 1; break; }
  case '}': { return 1; break; }
  case '~': { return 1; break; }
  case ',': { return 1; break; }
  case '"': { return 1; break; }
  case ':': { return 1; break; }
  case ';': { return 1; break; }
  case "[": { return 1; break; }
  case ']': { return 1; break; }
  default: {break;}}
     }else{return 1;}
        }
    }else{return 1;}
}

if(!sanitizer('test@test.com') == 1)
{ echo "it works"; }else{ echo "nope, crap";}
?>"

So Its Basically a few "if" statements to check logic of an email, another "if" statement combined with a encoding function then to round it out with a case statement. Obviously this is left really open for you to add your own status codes and such with the returns.