Hi,
me again,
I have a textbox that users can enter a url of there website.
I have default value at http:// so when page loads the text box alreay displays http://
I am not sure what i do in PHP to check to make sure that the url starts with http://
can someone tell me what i use in PHP so it checks that the textbox starts with http:// ?
Thank you,
genieuk
if (!strpos(#_post['textbox'],'http://') == 0) { return false}/* return false can be any thing, have successfully used header("location: $_server"); to bounce incorrectly filled pages back */ }
or javascript can check similarly in the <form onsubmit='javascript'> before submission
you can check with javascript
apply string function to check if the first 7 characters are "http://"
or there is an other option use http:// outside text field and let the users just enter url like www.test.com and you concatenate http:// with url
Hello Everyone,
Once again thanks for yout help.
I think i will use http:// outside the box and concantanate, i did not think of that.
Thank you to everyone
genieuk
Hi! Just use the preg_match() to check whether the http:// is there or not and take the desired action.
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