Re: PHP: Validating E-mail and Website Addresses

I posed this question about validating URLs to a Perl
discussion list and someone suggested a quite
different strategy: nevermind regexps, try to fetch
the url. If it's accessible, obviously the url is
well-formed and the site is up; if not, the url is 
either ill-formed or the site is inaccessible.

hth

David Mintz
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--- Jami Moore <jami(at)jamisniche.com> wrote:
> Morning all.
> 
> I have recently been trying to learn PHP with Larry
> Ullman's PHP for 
> the World Wide Web Book.
> 
> In it, he gives code to validate a website address,
> replace it with a 
> hyperlink, and then write it to a file using eregi()
> and eregi_replace

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