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rottingham/urlvalidator
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Validate URL form, Validate Header Existance and Reformat URLs

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UrlValidator
============

[](#urlvalidator)

Utility Class to validate URL string as well as determine if the URL exists.

For extended usage examples, see test files.

**Composer Ready**

Available on Packagist:

#### Sample Usage

[](#sample-usage)

Simply import the `Urlvalidator.class.php` file into your project if you are not using dependency injection.

```
require __DIR__ . '/src/UrlValidator.class.php';

```

##### Valiate URL

[](#valiate-url)

To validate a URL string, use the `UrlValidator::validate(url)` method;

```
$url = 'http://www.yahoo.com';
$isValid = UrlValidator\UrlValidator::validate($url);
var_dump($isValid);

```

#### Check if URL Exists

[](#check-if-url-exists)

To determine if a URL actaully exists, IE the domain exists and the URL request is not bounced, use the `UrlValidator::exists(url)` method;

```
$url = 'http://www.yahoo.com';
$exists = UrlValidator\UrlValidator::exists($url);
var_dump($exists);

```

**Note:** `UrlValidator::exists(url)` calls `UrlValidator::validate(url)` and will return FALSE if the URL is invalid before every checking the URL headers.

#### Reformat URL

[](#reformat-url)

You can attempt to reformat a bad URL with the `UrlValidator::reformat(url)` method. This method is far from perfect, but since `www.yahoo.com` is technically an invalid URL, it can be quite useful.

```
$url = 'google.com';
$newUrl = UrlValidator\UrlValidator::reformat($url);
var_dump($newUrl);

// Outputs array (size=2)
    'original' => `google.com`
    'url' => 'http://wwww.google.com'

```

###  Health Score

21

—

LowBetter than 18% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 80% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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