Re: validate URL

From:	Jeroen Houben	Date:	Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:34:52 +0000
Subject:	Re: validate URL
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Stefan Neufeind wrote:

On 4 Dec 2003 at 9:29, Paul M Jones wrote:
On Dec 4, 2003, at 9:22 AM, Arnaud Limbourg wrote:
Nope. it means valid values are http, https, ftp the ? is for 0 or 1 which matches http or https.
     
Which means that mailto:, news://, and gopher:// are not valid?
Mailto: itself is no URL since you won't have a // behind if you write it in a a-href-link. But for news and gopher you're right, yes. So maybe let's consider having an optional array as Pierre suggested. Mostly you just want to allow http, https and ftp I'm sure. I would say that you if you pass an array with valid protocols it should limit the possibilities, but by default it should allow everything:

$validate->url('mms://www.yahoo.com/stream.wma'); // true $validate->url('mms://www.yahoo.com/stream.wma', array('http','https')); // false Just my 2cents. Jeroen