Identifying parts of a string with php

Question

I am trying to find out when a web address in submitted to my database, but this code does not seem to be working... any ideas on why it is not working?

if(!stripos($myString, ".com") || !stripos($myString, "http://"))

I am still able to submit a comment containing a web address

Answer 1

If you're using PHP 5.2 or later, you're better off using filter_var, like so:

if(filter_var($myString, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL))

More information on filter_var here .