Re: [PHP] Checking for a string.

2002-10-29 Thread ed
Thanks, figured that out shortly after I posted. Ed On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, John Nichel wrote: > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php > > Wrong syntax, and more code than needed. Your code would always resolve > true (if ($matches[0] = "http")). Doing that sets the value of

Re: [PHP] Checking for a string.

2002-10-29 Thread John Nichel
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php Wrong syntax, and more code than needed. Your code would always resolve true (if ($matches[0] = "http")). Doing that sets the value of $matches[0] to "http". Equality is ==. RTFM. If all you want to know is if the URL contains a "http", t

Re: [PHP] Checking for a string.

2002-10-29 Thread ed
Seems to work but I'm getting a Warning Message: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash Here's the code: $path = "http://somehost.somedomain.com";; preg_match ("http", $path, $matches); if ($matches[0] = "http") { $action = "this action"; } else { $action = "that action

Re: [PHP] Checking for a string.

2002-10-29 Thread John Nichel
preg_match() [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently writting a redirect script for my site which will transfer someone to either a external link or a directory on my server. In order to do this I need to use a directive that either contains the directory path or a URL. How do I check the contents