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+Email-Address-Validator
+=======================
+
+This is a fork of [AddedBytes' EmailAddressValidator class](https://code.google.com/p/php-email-address-validation/).
+
+## Changes ##
+Changes include:
+
+- [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) support
+- Refactored the class to be purely static
+- Opened up methods for checking the "local part" (the bit before the `@`) and the "domain part" (after the `@`) 
+to be public methods
+- Additional code style and docblock fixing to properly follow the [PHP-FIG PSR-1](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1/) 
+and [PSR-2](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/) documents
+
+Note that this class is still **un-namespaced** - i.e. it's still declared in the global namespace. The `composer.json` 
+file is still set up to correctly load it when required, so this shouldn't be a problem in practice - it's just perhaps
+not best-practice.
+
+## Installation ##
+Use [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/):
+```
+php composer.phar require aziraphale/email-address-validator:^2
+```
+
+If you don't want to use Composer (why not?!), just download the `EmailAddressValidator.php` file, save it with your project, and `require` it where needed.
+
+Note that this updated version is **version 2.0.0**. I have kept the original class tagged as **version 1.0.10** (it was the 10th commit to the Google Code svn repository). If you want to use Composer to install the **old** class, simply specify `^1` as the version constraint (which will allow for backwards-compatible changes to be installed, if any get made, while never jumping to my modified class without your direct action):
+```
+php composer.phar require aziraphale/email-address-validator:^1
+```
+
+## Usage ##
+Due to the aforementioned changes, the way of using this class has completely changed. However it has such a small and simple interface that these changes shouldn't be problematic.
+
+As a recap, the **old usage** was like this:
+```php
+$validator = new EmailAddressValidator;
+if ($validator->check_email_address('test@example.org')) {
+    // Email address is technically valid
+}
+```
+
+The **new syntax** is as follows (ensure you have already included Composer's `autoload.php` file!):
+```php
+if (EmailAddressValidator::checkEmailAddress("test@example.org")) {
+    // Email address is technically valid
+}
+```
+
+with a couple of additional methods in case they're helpful:
+```php
+if (EmailAddressValidator::checkLocalPortion("test")) {
+    // "test" is technically a valid string to have before the "@" in an email address
+}
+if (EmailAddressValidator::checkDomainPotion("example.org")) {
+    // "example.org" is technically a valid email address host
+}
+```