strstr problem

[nexgen_x]

I have a field in a form that a user can fill out for their email address. Its default value is [url]http://,[/url] so that they know they need to include it, rather than starting with www.

However, I have another script that checks to see if there is a value for $fullurl (what they entered in the above field). If they don't have a website, they'll tend to just leave it as [url]http://.[/url] This means that $fullurl = true, and the if statement is carried out.

What I want to do, then, is cut out the [url]http://[/url] when they submit the URL, and then put it back on when its being printed (if $fullurl = true). I tried using strstr($fullurl, "http://"), but that includes [url]http://,[/url] rather than starting the new string from where [url]http://[/url] ends.

Any suggestions? Cheers,

[archangel_617b]

Handling strings? Regex to the rescue! Take a look at [man]ereg[/man] and you can search for help about regex in Google. So, to check for a url included after the [url]http://[/url] and then drop the [url]http://[/url] if it is there, you should try something like:

if (ereg('([url]http://[/url])(.+)', $fullurl))
    $fullurl = ereg_replace('([url]http://[/url])(.+)', '\2', $fullurl);

Er... If you are stripping the http prefix and adding it later, do you need to include it when users are submitte URLs? Either way, hope you get it to work 😃

[leatherback]

Hi,

I can be mistaken, but eeeh..
Can't you easier just put the [url]http://[/url] before the form element, so that the data submitted with the form is either empty or an URL?

[url]http://[/url]<input type="text" name="URL">

You can then check wether the URL has been set.
In the database you can then either store the URL without [url]http://[/url] or with, by just adding it:

$URL = "http://" + $URL

Just an idea?

[nexgen_x]

Thanks guys - thats a pretty obvious idea Leather, not sure why I didn't think of it. I think I'll go with it 🙂

[hand]

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Did you delete your thread with your mySQL insert problem?

use test;
CREATE TABLE pguilds (
 name char(30),
 leader char(30),
 type char(30),
 races char(30),
 classes char(30),
 other char(30),
 website char(30),
 email char(30),
 lore char(30),
 roleplay char(30),
 otherinfo char(30)
);

INSERT INTO pguilds (name, leader, type, races, classes, other, website, email, lore, roleplay, otherinfo) values ('test', 'test', 
'Amazon Temple', 'test', 'test', 'test', 'test', '[e-mail]', 'Yes', 'Yes', 'test'); 

If so - WHY?

What was the solution? Did you execute
describe pguilds;
??