adding http to a variable

[Anon]

Dear Reader,

I would like to make a script which adds http:// to an url when the users gives www.cnn.com or home.planet.nl

but it doesn't need to put http:// if it allready exists.

How to fix it?

Gr.

Kasper (17yr)

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$url="www.cnn.com";
if(ereg("^http://", $url)){
print $url;
}
else{
$url="http://".$url;
print $url;
}

[Anon]

Dear Peio,

Thank you, Thank you, very very much.
The script works fine.

Gr.

Kasper

[kester]

the second line of your solution script has a "^" left of "http". I was wondering what that did, why it needs to be there. Is it part of the string that it checks, or a special character describing the location of the string??

~Just curious

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the second 🙂
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3
and your best friend - The Manual
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php