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Add Contact choking on URL with hyphen
June 25, 2011, 11:39:32 pm
Hi all,

I'm a CiviCRM newbie and a php illiterate.

The very first contact I wanted to manually add to CiviCRM caused a problem: when I filled out the URL of its website, I got an error message:
Please correct the following errors in the form fields below:
Enter a valid web location beginning with 'http://' or 'https://'.

It took me some time to find out what's going on. First I thought it had something to do with the http:// being inserted automatically, since there where a few posts in this board about that. Then I found this post in another board: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,19865.msg82898.html#msg82898

Sure enough: coincidentally my first url contained a hyphen and, sure enough, when I tried it with a URL not containing a hyphen, it worked all right.

I have php version 5.2.9 and cannot change it, since I'm on a hosted server. Any suggestions for a patch or a workaround?

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Re: Add Contact choking on URL with hyphen
June 26, 2011, 04:21:32 pm

Your options are:

1. Eliminate the places where we invoke the 'url' rule via the buildForm hook (might be a bit cumbersome to do so)

2. Fix the code here: CRM/Utils/Rule.php (function url). You will need PHP skills here

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