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Detect Twitter URL PHP

I'm trying to validate the Twitter URL which my users will submit.

This is what I have:

$twitter = "http://twitter.com/jack";
$parse = parse_url($twitter);
if($parse['host'] !== 'www.twitter.com') {
    $error[] = "Invalid Twitter URL.";
}

That doesn't seems to do the job. I don't really want to use regular expressions as the parse_url seems to be made for this kind of validation.

Anyone knows what's going wrong here?

Solution

  • You are checking for www.twitter.com but the host in the URL is just twitter.com, so check for that instead.