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Is there a way, either out-of-the-box or via PHP, to check if a custom text field contains a particular bit of text, and if it does not, add it in when rendering the template?

For example, I have a custom field for “website” where I’d like the content editors to always add “http://” before they enter a URL. But, if they forget to add the “http://”, I’d like to add it for them when the template is rendered.

Thanks!

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/channel_entries.html#search-field-name

That would be one option but it basically filters entries that the field either does or doesn’t contain the specific text you could then add it in in your template and then do a seperate call for ones that had the http:// this may not work great though if they need to be in a specific order.

http://www.causingeffect.com/software/expressionengine/ce-string/user-guide CE String is an incredible addon that lets you run all kinds of php manipulation.

If your given example was actually what you are trying to do you may want to try either

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/jco-url or http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/vz-url-extension

Thanks, Phil! I’ll take a look. I appreciate the help.

FWIW, I think I might have been able to write a small PHP snippet to do the check for me. It looks like it works for the data set that I currently have.

{if company_url}
<?php
  $url = '{company_url}';
  if (strpos($url,'http://') !== false) {
    print $url;
  } else {
    print 'http://'.$url;
  }
?>
{/if}

My limited PHP knowledge seems to have gotten me to where I needed to be!

Thanks again.