ereg on a URL 1

[steijssen]

Hi,

I'm curious to know how the ereg expression would look like when you want to validate a URL (the text only, it doesn't need to realy exist, but 'htp:/ww.website.kom' should not be accepted

 

[inlandpac]

really, the only part you can expect to validate via regexp is http:// ftp:// etc. You cannot truely validate a domain because ww.domain.com and

http://www.domain.com

and

http://www3.domain.com

[anything].[anything].[etc].[tld] are all valid.

So, to validate http:// you just do:

if(!eregi("^

http://",$URL))

{
//not a good url
}

Chad. ICQ: 54380631

 

[mcvdmvs]

Below is the posix regular expression an url has to match to.
Good luck.

eregi("(

http://)?(

[0-9a-z]([-\\.]?[0-9a-z])*\\.)+[a-z]{2,}[0-9]+)?(/[-/.=_&0-9a-z]*)?(\\?[-.=_&0-9a-z]*)?$", $site) mcvdmvs
-- "It never hurts to help" -- Eek the Cat

 

[inlandpac]

but remember that even that model does not allow for all posibilities.

At my work, we have over 100 domains and some of them are so off-beat that the posix regexp does not work.

chad. ICQ: 54380631