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nti-zend.php

<h1>Scratch</h1>
<pre>
    <?php
    date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
    $official_pattern='/^[\w\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/';
    $official_pattern_2='/^[\w\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}(?:|\/.{3,20})$/';
    $pattern = "%";
//match a www or other subdomain followed by a dot if its there,
//not required though, from very start of subject
    $pattern.="\A([\w]+\.){0,1}";
//match 1 or more word characters  - this is the domain name
    $pattern.="([\w]+)";
//dot followed by between 2 and 3 word characters, repeated 1 or 2 times
    $pattern .="(\.[\w]{2,3}){1,2}";
//very end of subject
    $pattern .= "\Z";
    $pattern.="%";

    $subjects[] = 'www.bbc.co.uk';
    $subjects[] = 'news.bbc.co.uk';
    $subjects[] = 'im not a url';
    $subjects[] = 'www.google.com';
    $subjects[] = 'test.co.uk';
    $subjects[] = '.co.uk';

    foreach ($subjects as $subject) {
        
        echo '<h1>' . $subject . '</h1>';

        $res = preg_match($pattern, $subject, $matches);

        echo '<h2>' . (($res) ? 'Matched' : 'Not Matched') . '</h2>';

        var_dump($matches);
    }