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any PHPers around?

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lemony, Sat 13 Mar 2004, 22:15, archived)

why

whats the problem?

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anythingbutthisactually, Sat 13 Mar 2004, 22:16, archived)

i'm wanting a simple way to check whether a URL has the http:// on it

and if not then i'll add it

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lemony, Sat 13 Mar 2004, 22:17, archived)

look into these two fucntions on php.net

strpos and strstr I will have a look also seeing as I have nothing better to do

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anythingbutthisactually, Sat 13 Mar 2004, 22:20, archived)

i was going to use parse_url

but i've not used it before and have no idea how it works

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lemony, Sat 13 Mar 2004, 22:21, archived)

well, heres something to check whether http:// exists

link

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anythingbutthisactually, Sat 13 Mar 2004, 22:23, archived)

i think you included a < or > sign in that

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lemony, Sat 13 Mar 2004, 22:24, archived)

something yes

linked to where I found it

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anythingbutthisactually, Sat 13 Mar 2004, 22:26, archived)

never heard

of parse_url though

will check it out

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anythingbutthisactually, Sat 13 Mar 2004, 22:28, archived)

if(strcmp(substr($url, 0, 7), 'http://') == 0)

then it has http:// on the front.

(zero from strcmp means the same)

not sure if the slashes in that string will cause problems, but it's in single quotes so presumably not.

(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 13 Mar 2004, 22:30, archived)