Regex valid url

da59f645 · Vitalik · 0cd96e72 · da59f645
Commit da59f645 authored Jan 28, 2016 by Vitalik
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--- a/helper.php
+++ b/helper.php
@@ -124,8 +124,11 @@ function validate_url($url)
        $url = 'http://' . $url;
    }

-    $url = filter_var($url, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
-    $url = filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL);
+    preg_match("/[\\w]+(\\.[\\w]+)*(\\.[a-z]{2,6})/i", $url, $matches);
+
+    if (empty($matches[0])) {
+        $url = false;
+    }

    return $url;
 }