PHP validation/regex for URL

Question

I've been looking for a simple regex for URL's, does anybody have one handy that works well? I didn't find one with the zend framework validation classes and have seen several implementations.

Thanks

Answer 1

There is a PHP native function for that:

$url = 'http://www.yoururl.co.uk/sub1/sub2/?param=1&param2/';

if ( ! filter_var( $url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL ) ) {
    // Wrong
}
else {
    // Valid
}

Returns the filtered data, or FALSE if the filter fails.

Check it here

Answer 2

"/(http(s?):\/\/)([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,4}(\.[a-z]{2,4})*(\/[^ ]+)*/i"

1. (http(s?)://) means http:// or https://

2. ([a-z0-9-]+.)+ => 2.0[a-z0-9-] means any a-z character or any 0-9 or (-)sign)

                2.1 (+) means the character can be one or more ex: a1w, 
                    a9-,c559s, f)
   
                2.2 \. is (.)sign
   
                2.3. the (+) sign after ([a-z0-9\-]+\.) mean do 2.1,2.2,2.3 
                   at least 1 time 
                 ex: abc.defgh0.ig, aa.b.ced.f.gh. also in case www.yyy.com
   
                3.[a-z]{2,4} mean a-z at least 2 character but not more than 
                             4 characters for check that there will not be 
                             the case 
                             ex: https://www.google.co.kr.asdsdagfsdfsf
   
                4.(\.[a-z]{2,4})*(\/[^ ]+)* mean 
   
                  4.1 \.[a-z]{2,4} means like number 3 but start with 
                      (.)sign 
   
                  4.2 * means (\.[a-z]{2,4})can be use or not use never mind
   
                  4.3 \/ means \
                  4.4 [^ ] means any character except blank
                  4.5 (+) means do 4.3,4.4,4.5 at least 1 times
                  4.6 (*) after (\/[^ ]+) mean use 4.3 - 4.5 or not use 
                      no problem
   
                  use for case https://stackoverflow.com/posts/51441301/edit
   
                  5. when you use regex write in "/ /" so it come
   

   "/(http(s?)://)([a-z0-9-]+.)+[a-z]{2,4}(.[a-z]{2,4})(/[^ ]+)/i"

                  6. almost forgot: letter i on the back mean ignore case of 
                     Big letter or small letter ex: A same as a, SoRRy same 
                     as sorry.
   

Note : Sorry for bad English. My country not use it well.