Question

I am trying to write code to see if a website url has any “=” or “?” in the url

I have the url in $website (example http://www.smith.com?page=1) should be found but it is not in the following code

$cleanurl_text = "You appear to have a clean url structure.";


$regex = '/=/i';
if (preg_match($regex, $website)) 
{
   $cleanurl_text = "You do not appear to have a clean url structure.";
}
$regex = '/?/i';   
if (preg_match($regex, $website)) 
{
   $cleanurl_text = "You do not appear to have a clean url structure.";
}

Answer 1

You shouldn’t use regex for this but more http://php.net/manual/en/function.strstr.php

anyway if you still want your regex you should do something like this

$regex = '/=|\?/';   
if (preg_match($regex, $website)) 
{
    $cleanurl_text = "You do not appear to have a clean url structure.";
}