Checking for relative vs absolute paths/URLs in PHP

Question

I need to implement functions to check whether paths and urls are relative, absolute, or invalid (invalid syntactically- not whether resource exists). What are the range of

Answer 1

Since I cannot comment on answers because of my poor reputation I have to respond to ymakux answer with the function that he copied from Drupal library.

I am using this function and I have found out that urls with query part (text after ? symbol) which contains | symbol will be evaluated to false

for example:

https://example.com/image.jpeg?fl=res,749,562,3|shr,,20|jpg,90

Will be evaluated to false.

All you have to do is add

\|

To query part of the regex so the function looks like:

public static function isAbsoluteUrl($url)
    {
        $pattern = "/^(?:ftp|https?|feed)?:?\/\/(?:(?:(?:[\w\.\-\+!$&'\(\)*\+,;=]|%[0-9a-f]{2})+:)*
        (?:[\w\.\-\+%!$&'\(\)*\+,;=]|%[0-9a-f]{2})+@)?(?:
        (?:[a-z0-9\-\.]|%[0-9a-f]{2})+|(?:\[(?:[0-9a-f]{0,4}:)*(?:[0-9a-f]{0,4})\]))(?::[0-9]+)?(?:[\/|\?]
        (?:[\w#!:\.\?\+\|=&@$'~*,;\/\(\)\[\]\-]|%[0-9a-f]{2})*)?$/xi";

        return (bool) preg_match($pattern, $url);
    }

Hope it helps someone :)