PHP FILTER_SANITIZE_URL filter

Definition and usage

The FILTER_SANITIZE_URL filter removes all illegal URL characters from the string.

This filter allows all letters, numbers, and $-_.+!*'(),{}|^~[]`"><#%;/?:@&=

Name: "url"

ID-number: 518

Example

 <?php$var="http://www.w3cschooåøl.cøc";var_dump(filter_var($var, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL));?>

The output of the code looks like this:

 string(24) "http://www.w3cschool.cc"