[TYPO3] Verifying a user specified URL

[Bernd Wilke]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:29:08 +0530, A M Sharma wrote
with subject "[TYPO3] Verifying a user specified URL":

> Hello,
> 
> I want to know if there is some way to verify a URL (website link) user 
> specifies in a form field. I have searched a lot, found some third party 
> Perl/CGI stuff to do that. Is their some facility or extension which can 
> help us do this in Typo3? If not, then any suggestions on how to use the 
> Perl/CGI stuff available.

an own php-function is needed:
the easiest way which comes to mind is trying a fopen($url,'r') in the
php-verifying. 
or use a more complex version with cURL-functions.


Bernd

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