How do I parse a URL in PHP ?

[marcel]

how do I parse a URL in PHP ?
I want to make sure the link is a real website. any known classes for this ?

 

[mch]

Try this buddy:

if (preg_match("/http(s?):\/\/([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+(\/[\w- .\/\?%&=]*)?/i", $url_to_parse))
{
	//URL is valid, do stuff
}

Regex pattern taken from:
http://objectsharp.com/blogs/dave/archive/2004/05/17/446.aspx

 

[eli03]

you can also add this function, to know if the site is existing

function if_url_exist($url) {
    $fp = @fopen($url,"r");
    if ($fp) {
        fclose($fp);
       $ret ="Y";
    } else {
        $ret ="N";
    }
	return $ret;
} 

//test
$url="http://www.bigvertiser.com";
$test = if_url_exist($url);
echo $test;

 

[Kate]

There is also parse_url