Advanced Search

Standardize URL String

/ Published in: PHP
Save to your folder(s)
this function processes a URL that 'should' be a full url (i.e. http://something.com/dfsdfs/)
and makes sure it contains http:// for easy inclusion as a link into a href attribute

Expand | Embed | Plain Text

Copy this code and paste it in your HTML 
  1. // this function processes a URL that 'should' be a full url (http://something.com/dfsdfs/)
  2. // and makes sure it contains the correct format to be included into a href attribute
  3. function processURLString($urlString) {
  4. 	$urlString = trim($urlString);
  5.  
  6. 	if($urlString) {
  7. 		$urlString = preg_replace('/https?:\/\//', '', $urlString);
  8. 		$urlString = trim($urlString);
  9. 		$urlString  = 'http://'.$urlString;
  10. 	}
  11.  
  12. 	return $urlString;
  13. }

Report this snippet


Comments

RSS Icon Subscribe to comments

You need to login to post a comment.