How to add http if it doesn’t exists in the URL using PHP?

Hi guys , here I am going to share a simple php function which is taken care of our fixing url/links problem by adding http in the url If it does not exists in the url

This function will add http in front of urls which doesnt have.

Here is the PHP code

function fix_url($url) {

if (substr($url, 0, 7) == 'http://') { return $url; }

if (substr($url, 0, 8) == 'https://') { return $url; }

return 'http://'. $url;

}

Usage

 echo fix_url('www.google.com'); 

Output

 http://www.google.com 

The above solution is very simple and straight forward solution, But parse_url function in php is the best one to find the protocol.

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