On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 06/26/2011 12:31 PM, 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 $url; > > ----- > > > > Or I am doing something wrong > > > > Thank you > > Unless I'm totally misunderstanding what you want (validate that a > string starts with http://) try: > > if(strpos($url, 'http://') === 0) { > //starts with http:// > } esle { > // does not start with http:// > } > > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > Another possible solution could be: $ary = explode('://', $url); if (1 >= count($ary)) { echo 'No schema specified!'; } else { // Schema specified. // $ary[0] is the protocol $allowed = array('http', 'https'); if (FALSE == in_array($ary[0], $allowed) { // Protocol not valid! exit(1); // or return FALSE; whatever... } // $ary[1] is the uri, validate with filter_var(). } Hope this helps. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
