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ci way to validate url - El Forum - 01-17-2012
[eluser]keevitaja[/eluser]
what is the best practice to validate an url?
now the local characters like üõäö etc ara also permitted!
any thoughts?
ci way to validate url - El Forum - 01-19-2012
[eluser]keevitaja[/eluser]
this expression doesn't validata IDN urls. so i came up with a solution.
i found idn converter from
https://github.com/aluksidadi/IDN-Validator/blob/master/idna_convert.class.php
and then extended url helper
preg_match validates only the existense of top level domain, cause filter_var passes urls without it. like http://domain
Code:
function validate_url($url) {
if(!preg_match("/^http(|s):\/{2}(.*)\.([a-z]){2,}(|\/)(.*)$/i", $url)) {
return false;
}
$ci = & get_instance();
$ci->load->library('idna_convert');
$url = $ci->idna_convert->encode($url);
return filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL);
}if anyone has better solution or approach, i would be glad to hear it!
ci way to validate url - El Forum - 01-19-2012
[eluser]Amitabh Roy[/eluser]
Code:
filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL);rejects domain name with dashes even if the domain is valid.
There is a bug in php 5.2 which prevents it from validating url with dashes.
ci way to validate url - El Forum - 01-19-2012
[eluser]keevitaja[/eluser]
how about 5.3
bug still present?
edit: anyway 5.3.1 validates this one:
http://test-öä.ee/this-is-test
ci way to validate url - El Forum - 01-19-2012
[eluser]Amitabh Roy[/eluser]
[quote author="keevitaja" date="1326973473"]how about 5.3
bug still present?
edit: anyway 5.3.1 validates this one:
http://test-öä.ee/this-is-test[/quote]
Great, it works then. Need to add it to my note.