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@the-ferretJan 27.2008

Is there anyway that I can check a URL is valid in php? (want to be able to detedct deadlinks before output an <a> tag)

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@beahawkJan 28.2008 — #you could use regular expressions to check the url...

[code=php]
 function checkUrl($url)
 {
 return ereg("^((http|https)://)?(((www.)?[^ ]+.[com|org|net|edu|gov|us|.co.uk])|([0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+))([^ ]+)?$", $url);
 }[/code]

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