[SOLVED] check if http:// was entered

[htmlstig]

hi i have worte a simple script that has a form and uploads the data from the from to a mysql database upon submit.

 

one of my fields is a url field, how would i check to see if the user has entered http:// before the address and if its not there add it to the address before sending it to mysql?

 

Cheers

Carl

[corbin]

if(stripos($url, 'http://') === 0) {

    //starts with http://

}

 

You could also use regular expressions, but there isn't a very good advantage to that.  If you wanted to check for https:// you could just use an ||.

[htmlstig]

sorry if this sounds daft ... does that add the http:// to the address aswel or does it just check to see if its there?

[opalelement]

sorry if this sounds daft ... does that add the http:// to the address aswel or does it just check to see if its there?

 

if(stripos($url, 'http://') == 0) {

    //starts with http://

}

else

{

    $url = "http://".$url;

}

 

or to just append it:

 

if(stripos($url, 'http://') != 0)

{

    $url = "http://".$url;

}

 

[htmlstig]

for some reason i couldnt get those to work this is my code

 

<? 
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
$name=$_POST['name']; 
$email=$_POST['email']; 
$website=$_POST['website']; 
$comment=$_POST['comment']; }
if(stripos($website, 'http://') == 0) {
}
else
{
    $website = "http://".$website;
}
mysql_connect($server, $username, $password) or die(mysql_error()); 
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error()); 
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `guestbook` VALUES ( '', NOW(), NOW(), '$name', '$email', '$website', '$comment')"); 
header("location: $_SERVER[php_SELF]");
}
?>

 

 

[opalelement]

Any errors?

[Mark Baker]

Watch the number of = characters

if(stripos($website, 'http://') === 0) {
}
else
{
    $website = "http://".$website;
}

 

[htmlstig]

thank you that sorted it i didnt notice the difference between the 2 posts

[opalelement]

My bad, forgot that last =