I've just completed this in RegExp format and I just wondering if it looks ok to you guys.::

ereg("^[http]{1}(://){1}[_a-z0-9-]+(\.){1}[a-z]+$");

I try to make it match a url with exactly one "http://" followed by one of more characters which is the followed by a dot (.) indicating the domain...then followed by x amount of characters for the domain. So, how is it looking?

Thanks
-kyle

BTW: I think it's really great that Wrox made a comeback...this place is awesome. The new forum is also quite better than the old one =)

Haha, asking a PHP developer to part with his or her regular expressions is like asking them for their underpants :)

I guess if you're happy to just check HTTP-scheme URLs, then this might simplify things a little:

(^[http://]{1}([^[:space:]]*)[:alnum:]+[(\.){1}[:alnum:]]+$)

I prefer "alnum", ("alphanumeric"), presonally, to that "a-z0-9" jumble. I think it looks a little less cumbersome. Either way (yours or mine) this only checks as far as the domain, of course.

Maybe:

(^[http://]{1}([^[:space:]]*)[:alnum:]+[(\.){1}[:alnum:]]+(\/)[[:alnum]#?/&=]$)

Will allow for full URLs, including querystrings, internal anchors links, etc. Haven't tried it, I must admit.

Replace [http://] at the front with [[:alpha:]+://], and you'll be able to cope with https://, ftp:// or telnet:// et cetera.

BTW, (and FWIW) Wrox is "back" the way MV Agusta is "back":
different design team from a different era, with different manufacturers, in a different factory, owned by different owners, from a different country, using different materials....
But, for all that, still painted red, still called "Wrox", and (I sincerely hope, in wishing them all the best) winning races again, soon, perhaps.