Re: Registerrule(), regular expression for checking url

This is not a QF, but a REGEX mistake "/" is the regex boundary delimiter. either choose another delimiter or escape instances of "/" inside the regex. Ignatius _________________________ "Tommy Ipsen" <tipsen@imada.sdu.dk> wrote in message news:20040415103246.35755.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi > > As far as I remember I've formerly used this line > > $form->registerRule('url', 'regex', > '/^(file|ldap|http|https|ftp)://(([-a-z0-9])+\.)+([a-z]{2,6}|([a-z/]+[a-z/]{ 2,6}))$/'); > > to add a rule verifying if a form field contains a valid url - apparently the '/' is making problems > now since I'm getting the following error: > > Warning: Unknown modifier '/' in Z:\www_test\cmjern\pear\HTML\QuickForm\Rule\Regex.php on line 57 > > Can anyone fix the above regular expression or perhaps come up with a better one? > > I know that it's allowing many invalid url's but it's just meant as a crude check to help the user. > This means I will rather accept an invalid url than reject a valid one! > > Hope you can help! > > Cheers, > > Tommy Ipsen