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valid_url rule not working - rejoan - 05-19-2015
form validation rule "valid_url" not working as expected. here is my code
PHP Code:
$this->form_validation->set_rules('website', 'Website', 'required|valid_url');
this rule returning true for string "test" for following markup
PHP Code:
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="website" name="website" placeholder="Website Address" required/>
RE: valid_url rule not working - Avenirer - 05-19-2015
There is already a question like this one on the forum: http://forum.codeigniter.com/thread-61734.html?highlight=valid_url
RE: valid_url rule not working - rejoan - 05-19-2015
any string treating as valid. "test","spinytel", "rejoan" all are tested. returning true & form submitting
RE: valid_url rule not working - Avenirer - 05-19-2015
well... localhost is also a valid url, isn't it?
RE: valid_url rule not working - mwhitney - 05-20-2015
(05-19-2015, 03:33 AM)rejoan Wrote: any string treating as valid. "test","spinytel", "rejoan" all are tested. returning true & form submitting
...because those are valid URLs. Try using a character which is not permitted in a URL, or an invalid structure for the URL. I'm not sure how good the validation is, but I'm sure that your examples so far have all been valid URLs.
You're clearly looking for a validation which does something else, probably more explicit than simply determining whether it is a valid URL.
RE: valid_url rule not working - rejoan - 05-20-2015
In fact i need a rules which will return true only when find URL like these "google.com", "www.google.com", "http://google.com" etc but return false when not a valid a web address
RE: valid_url rule not working - mwhitney - 05-21-2015
(05-20-2015, 11:41 PM)rejoan Wrote: In fact i need a rules which will return true only when find URL like these "google.com", "www.google.com", "http://google.com" etc but return false when not a valid a web address
Your best bet in this case would probably be to create a custom validation function which calls the valid_url() method, then performs additional checks if the valid_url() method returns true.
The first resource for determining what makes up a valid URL is often RFC 3986, but I don't think you'll find this very helpful for whatever you need to do to determine what input represents a "valid web address".