Function to check and prefix http on url.

This function will check the the given url has prefixed http or https. if it is not it will prefix http on the given url.

function prefixHttpOnUrl($url = ''){

if ($url == ''){
return '';
}

if (substr($url, 0, 7) != 'http://' && substr($url, 0, 8) != 'https://'){
$url = 'http://'.$url;
}

return $url;
}



prefixHttpOnUrl("www.phpqa.blogspot.com") will return http://www.phpqa.blogspot.com

prefixHttpOnUrl("phpqa.blogspot.com") will return http://phpqa.blogspot.com

prefixHttpOnUrl("http://phpqa.blogspot.com") will return http://phpqa.blogspot.com


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