Invalid URL problem in get($url)

[clancey]

With the Jan 16, 2005 pligg beta5 I noticed that when I submitted a story without filling in the URL -- leaving it as http:// -- the program believed it was valid. The problem was the same with a single letter URL --> http://a

I solved the problem with the following change to the get($url) function in libs/link.php:

function get($url) {
 $url=trim($url);

 if( !preg_match( '/^(http|https|ftp):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,5}'
                   .'((:[0-9]{1,5})?\/.*)?$/i' ,$url))
               {
                $this->valid = false; return;
               }

A couple of lines down I notice the following test:

if(!($this->html = $xxx))  { return; }

Shouldn't that read

if(!($this->html === $xxx))

[cswank]

I'm having a problem in version 7 that no matter what URL I enter, it returns an "Invalid URL". This causes pligg to be pretty much useless. Any idea how I could correct this?

[cswank]

Hey I changed the line you suggest above just to see if that would work. It did and took care of the problem.

Great job spotting that !!!!!!