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Finding URL & Email text in a string? - El Forum - 08-16-2012
[eluser]carllawll[/eluser]
I've always been absolutely terrible with regex, it's just not my thing!
Would anyone be able to give us a hand finding out if a string contains a url or email
examples:
[email protected]
http://www.a.a
http://a.a
www.a.a
How difficult would something like this be?
Finding URL & Email text in a string? - El Forum - 08-16-2012
[eluser]dejan[/eluser]
Do you need to extract an email and/or URL from a string, or check if a string is valid email/url?
If latter, it's easy:
filter_var($string, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
filter_var($string, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL);
If former, it's a bit trickier. You can either try with regex, which I suggest you google for, or you can tokenize the string and check each token, like so:
foreach (preg_split('/\b/', $string) as $token) {
if (filter_var($token, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) return $token;
}
\b in regex is word boundry (space, comma, dot, semicolon, etc.).
Finding URL & Email text in a string? - El Forum - 08-16-2012
[eluser]carllawll[/eluser]
It's not going to just be an email or url, I want to know if it contains either as I don't want users to be able to contain either in posts they submit!
Finding URL & Email text in a string? - El Forum - 08-17-2012
[eluser]carllawll[/eluser]
Are there no regex wizards that can help me?
Finding URL & Email text in a string? - El Forum - 08-17-2012
[eluser]dejan[/eluser]
Why not use the second solution I provided? E.g. this piece of code:
foreach (preg_split(’/\b/’, $string) as $token) {
if (filter_var($token, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) return $token;
}
Finding URL & Email text in a string? - El Forum - 08-17-2012
[eluser]DarkManX[/eluser]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
use preg_match_all() to get the matches.