On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 20:10 +0100, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Sunday, 26 June 2011 at 18:31, Adam Tong wrote: > > 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 > > As noted in the documentation (http://php.net/filter.filters.validate), URLs are validated according to the format specified in RFC2396 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396). It does not validate that it's an HTTP URL, or that the hostname contains .s. > > Thus, "http://wwwtestcom"; is a perfectly valid URL, as is "banana://in.syrup", and anything else that can be parsed as a URL according to the rules in the above RFC. > > If you need to check for a specific type of URL you'll need to implement your own validation function, or google for one - there's loads out there. > > -Stuart > > -- > Stuart Dallas > 3ft9 Ltd > http://3ft9.com/ > > I've not really read the spec, so excuse me if I'm very wrong, but wouldn't that make it more of a URI syntax validator instead of a URL syntax validator? -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
