ereg_replace question...

[janhouse00]

Hello, is there anyway to strip off the string "http://" from this:

$foobar="http://http://http://www.invalid_url.com/member/path/test.htm" ?

Here I used $foobar=ereg_replace("[[url]http://[/url]]+","",$foobar); but doing so will delete the slashes as well. So how can I determine whether the url is valid?
Another question: is it possible to perform two queries using only single command?(Like this:

$query="select from table A where....";
$query="select from table B where....";

Thank you very much

[acidbox]

you should probably ask 2 seperate questions in 2 seperate posts. But....

1.) Use preg_replace instead of eregi_replace. You can check a valid web address with that function.

2.) $query = SELECT a.field_one, a.field_two, b.field_three, b.field_four FROM column_one a, column_two b WHERE ...

[Weedpacket]

...and use (http://), not [http://].