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deleting a specific set of characters in a php string

Below I've got a tiny bit of all my coding, this is the thing I need. $linkurl is just a regular url. I want this code so the possible http:// or https:// won't be in the link before i put it in my database. It's a fault prevention for when people add http:// themselves so you can't get urls with http://http:// in the database.

if (strpos($linkurl,'http://') !== false){
    $linkurl-http://=$linkurl
}

The problem is, I don't know what to type in the if statement.

Solution

  • You can replace the http:// and https:// with this sinppet of code, using regular expressions.

    $linkurl = 'http://example.com'; //Works for https too
$replaced = preg_replace('@(http://|https://)@i', '',  $linkurl);
echo $replaced;