Looking for url validator for form input

Hi,

Anybody have a regular method to validate url when inputed through form?

 

What do you mean exactly by validating URL? You want to make sure the URL is in the right format like www.abc.com?

 

yes please.

Is this enough, or do I need more...


if(!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z]+[:\/\/]+[A-Za-z0-9\-_]+\\.+[A-Za-z0-9\.\/%&=\?\-_]+$/i",$urlsubmitted))
{
Echo"You must supply a valid URL.";
Exit();
}

 

You can use parse_url() as well.

function is_valid_url($url)
{
     @extract(@parse_url($url));

     return isset($scheme, $host);
}

PHP:

(Untested)

Might not be THAT safe though.

 

Thanks...I was looking for a quick fix on the web, and just couldn't find one. That is why I cam here. I am actually going to use the preg method followed up by file type verification. So I think I answered my own question.