Hi, I wanted tu use php filters for validation to avoid regular expresions. Is it possible that FILTER_VALIDATE_URL only checks if the string has http:// and do not check for the format domain.something? ---- $url = 'http://wwwtestcom'; $url = filter_var($url,FILTER_VALIDATE_URL); echo $url; ----- Or I am doing something wrong Thank you -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php