Question

Basically, I’m using gethostbyname() to get the IP address of the specified URL, using parse_url() to determine the specific domain. However, this doesn’t work if http:// is not in the URL (unless I’m missing an option)

So how can I check if http:// is in the URL, and if not, add it appropriately?

Or if have a better alternative, I’d like to hear it. Thanks.

Answer 1

<?php
  $url = [some url here];
  if(substr($url, 0, 7) != 'http://') {
     $url = 'http://' . $url;
  }

?>