Question

Put simply, I need to check if the string in the variable $url is a simple http, if so, replace it with https – but I can’t get it to work – any ideas:

$url="http://www.google.com"; // example http url ##
$url_replaced = preg_replace( '#^http://#','https://', $url ); // replace http with https ##

Cheers!

Answer 1

Why not str_replace ?

$url="http://www.google.com"; // example http url ##
$url = str_replace('http://', 'https://', $url ); 
echo $url;