Symfony2 - How to validate an email address in a controller

Question

There is an email validator in symfony that can be used in a form: http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/constraints/Email.html

My question is: How can I use this val

Answer 1

My solution for symfony 3 was the following:

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Email as EmailConstraint;

$email = 'someinvalidmail@invalid.asdf';
// ... in the action then call
$emailConstraint = new EmailConstraint();

$errors = $this->get('validator')->validate(
    $email,
    $emailConstraint
);

$mailInvalid = count($errors) > 0;