Over the years, I used this regex to validate urls, and it's done an 'ok' job. The problem is, it won't validate after the .com part. It'll only validate http://www.domain.com. Anything more, and it'll throw an error.
function theUrl($rUrl)
{
if (preg_match('/^((http|https):\/{2})([w]{3})([\.]{1})([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)([\.]{1})((a[cdefgilmnoqrstuwxz]|aero|arpa)|(b[abdefghijmnorstvwyz]|biz)|(c[acdfghiklmnorsuvxyz]|cat|co.in|com|coop)|d[ejkmoz]|(e[ceghrstu]|edu)|f[ijkmor]|(g[abdefghilmnpqrstuwy]|gov)|h[kmnrtu]|(i[delmnoqrst]|info|int)|(j[emop]|jobs)|k[eghimnprwyz]|l[abcikrstuvy]|(m[acdghklmnopqrstuvwxyz]|mil|mobi|museum)|(n[acefgilopruz]|name|net)|(om|org)|(p[aefghklmnrstwy]|pro)|qa|r[eouw]|s[abcdeghijklmnortvyz]|(t[cdfghjklmnoprtvwz]|travel)|u[agkmsyz]|v[aceginu]|w[fs]|y[etu]|z[amw])$/i', $rUrl))
{
return true;
}
}
Can you help me with how the part after the .com should be for best results?
I would encourage you to use one of the native PHP functions instead of a custom regular expression, such as:
parse_url()filter_var() using the FILTER_VALIDATE_URL type.