note 79412 added to ref.filter

It seems that all FILTER_VALIDATE_URL is doing is calling parse_url(), which makes it effectively useless since parse_url() only fails on really malformed urls. <?php $url = 'http://...'; var_dump(filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)); ?> Will display: string(10) "http://..." None of the flags help either, so you're better off with regular expressions to validate a url. ---- Server IP: 216.235.15.211 Probable Submitter: 70.75.45.196 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filter.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/79412 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79412/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79412/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79412/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79412/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79412/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79412/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79412 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/79412 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php