PHP Forms - Validate URL

[scotty86]

Hello,

first things first: Thank you for your awesome work!

I came across following site: https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_form_url_email.asp

You are validating the URL by regex, that's good way to learn a bit about this expressions. But PHP offers also a filter for validating URLs.

if (!filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) {
  $urlErr = "Invalid url format";
}

Might be worth mentioning.

Have a nice day and stay healthy,
scotty86

Edited May 4, 2020 by Ingolme
Updated topic title

[scotty86]

Sorry, have not paid enough attention and messed up the topic 😇

I couldn't find a option to edit it. Please update it to something like "PHP Forms - Validate URL"

[Ingolme]

Surprisingly, we get people putting their usernames as a topic title quite frequently. I don't know why.

[scotty86]

On 5/4/2020 at 7:05 PM, Ingolme said:

Surprisingly, we get people putting their usernames as a topic title quite frequently. I don't know why.

*Off-Topic*

Ok, I'll try share my retardness.

1. I went to the forum, to share my suggestion.
2. I saw a "Start new topic" button and pressed it.
3. I saw two textboxes (marked as required) and a recaptcha and a textarea
4. I read email and title...
5. And here comes the wrong assumption:
   I thought title is meant to be my nickname, since I assumed, that I first have to create an user account (typically a nickname and an email-address) and that the textarea should help me to write my topic already, before forgetting my thought.

Maybe for knuckleheads like me, it would be better to have the inputs sorted: nickname, email address, captcha, title, tags, textarea.

Or you automatically ban email addresses of people having the title and their nickname the same. 😉