$url = "http://google.com/"; if (preg_match('/^(http|https|ftp):\/\/([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*(?:\.[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)+):?(\d+)?\/?/i', $url)) { echo "Your url is ok."; } else { echo "Wrong url."; }