Hi, I would use a regular expression to check it. This is a pretty general one, but I think it should do the trick. It searches for 1 or more upper or lowercase letters, followed by a literal dot, followed by 2 or 3 lowercase letters. Of course there are valid domains that would not match this (foobar.co.uk) for example, but it should work with the values you specified.
if (ereg("^[a-zA-Z]+\\.[a-z]{2,3}$", $var)) { // valid domain } else{ // not valid } Jeff At 07:59 AM 2/5/2002 -0800, Brandon Orther wrote: >Hello, > >Does anyone know a function or how I could make a function to check a >variable for being a valid domain name without the "www. <http://www./> >" In fron of it? > >Ex. $var = "mynewdomain.com" that would be TRUE > >Ex2. $var = "www.mynewdomain.com" that would be FALSE > >Ex3. $var = "My Great Domain" that would be FALSE > >And so on. > >Does anyone have a function that makes sure there are no illegal >characters and there is a period in the middle of the text? > > >-------------------------------------------- >Brandon Orther >WebIntellects Design/Development Manager >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >800-994-6364 >www.webintellects.com >-------------------------------------------- > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php