Hello, on 01/26/2007 12:10 PM Corden James (RW3) CM&MC Manchester said the following: > I have a form in which users submit a url. I am having problems as some > people submit the url in the format http://www.blah.blah.org > <http://www.blah.blah.org/> while others submit in the format > www.blah.blah.org <http://www.blah.blah.org/> I have designed the form > so that it seems fairly obvious (to me anyway) not to include the > http:// but people are still doing it (presumably because they are > copying and pasting from a browser). My form processing script is > designed to add http:// to the submitted url and place the modified url > in a database for future use. As you can imagine sometimes I end up with > urls such as http://http://www.blah.blah.org > <http://http:/www.blah.blah.org> in my database. Hence I need a more > rigorous form processing script that is capable of first checking if the > url includes http:// and then processes accordingly. Can anyone point me > in the right direction for such a script? I use a solution for that a lot of times that consists on using regular expressions to fill eventually missing characters in the URL. I use a popular forms generation and validation class that allows me to replace string patterns. It works on client side with Javascript and also on server side with the class itself. When using this class, you do not need to know any Javascript. Just define how you want to replace the string value patterns. Here you may find a live example form that demonstrates that: http://www.meta-language.net/forms-examples.html?example=test_form See the test_form.php example form script to see how it works in action. http://www.phpclasses.org/formsgeneration Oh, here you may find a tutorial video that explains all the features demonstrated by that example: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1/video/1/section/example-form.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.metastorage.net/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
