PHP validation/regex for URL

Question

I\'ve been looking for a simple regex for URLs, does anybody have one handy that works well? I didn\'t find one with the zend framework validation classes and have seen sev

Answer 1

There is a PHP native function for that:

$url = 'http://www.yoururl.co.uk/sub1/sub2/?param=1¶m2/';

if ( ! filter_var( $url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL ) ) {
    // Wrong
}
else {
    // Valid
}

Returns the filtered data, or FALSE if the filter fails.

Check it here