Url

Validates that a value is a valid URL string.

Applies to	property or method
Class	Url
Validator	UrlValidator

Basic Usage

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        // src/Entity/Author.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    #[Assert\Url]
    protected string $bioUrl;
}
    

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        # config/validator/validation.yaml
App\Entity\Author:
    properties:
        bioUrl:
            - Url: ~
    

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        <!-- config/validator/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping https://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="App\Entity\Author">
        <property name="bioUrl">
            <constraint name="Url"/>
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
    

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        // src/Entity/Author.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;

class Author
{
    // ...

    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata): void
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('bioUrl', new Assert\Url());
    }
}
    

This constraint doesn't check that the host of the given URL really exists, because the information of the DNS records is not reliable. Use the checkdnsrr PHP function if you still want to check that.

Note

As with most of the other constraints, null and empty strings are considered valid values. This is to allow them to be optional values. If the value is mandatory, a common solution is to combine this constraint with NotBlank.

Options

`groups`

type: array | string default: null

It defines the validation group or groups of this constraint. Read more about validation groups.

`message`

type: string default: This value is not a valid URL.

This message is shown if the URL is invalid.

You can use the following parameters in this message:

Parameter	Description
`{{ value }}`	The current (invalid) value
`{{ label }}`	Corresponding form field label

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        // src/Entity/Author.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    #[Assert\Url(
        message: 'The url {{ value }} is not a valid url',
    )]
    protected string $bioUrl;
}
    

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        # config/validator/validation.yaml
App\Entity\Author:
    properties:
        bioUrl:
            - Url:
                message: The url "{{ value }}" is not a valid url.
    

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        <!-- config/validator/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping https://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="App\Entity\Author">
        <property name="bioUrl">
            <constraint name="Url">
                <option name="message">The url "{{ value }}" is not a valid url.</option>
            </constraint>
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
    

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        // src/Entity/Author.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;

class Author
{
    // ...

    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata): void
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('bioUrl', new Assert\Url([
            'message' => 'The url "{{ value }}" is not a valid url.',
        ]));
    }
}
    

`normalizer`

type: a PHP callable default: null

This option allows to define the PHP callable applied to the given value before checking if it is valid.

For example, you may want to pass the 'trim' string to apply the trim PHP function in order to ignore leading and trailing whitespace during validation.

`payload`

type: mixed default: null

This option can be used to attach arbitrary domain-specific data to a constraint. The configured payload is not used by the Validator component, but its processing is completely up to you.

For example, you may want to use several error levels to present failed constraints differently in the front-end depending on the severity of the error.

`protocols`

type: array default: ['http', 'https']

The protocols considered to be valid for the URL. For example, if you also consider the ftp:// type URLs to be valid, redefine the protocols array, listing http, https, and also ftp.

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        // src/Entity/Author.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    #[Assert\Url(
        protocols: ['http', 'https', 'ftp'],
    )]
    protected string $bioUrl;
}
    

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        # config/validator/validation.yaml
App\Entity\Author:
    properties:
        bioUrl:
            - Url: { protocols: [http, https, ftp] }
    

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        <!-- config/validator/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping https://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="App\Entity\Author">
        <property name="bioUrl">
            <constraint name="Url">
                <option name="protocols">
                    <value>http</value>
                    <value>https</value>
                    <value>ftp</value>
                </option>
            </constraint>
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
    

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        // src/Entity/Author.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;

class Author
{
    // ...

    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata): void
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('bioUrl', new Assert\Url([
            'protocols' => ['http', 'https', 'ftp'],
        ]));
    }
}
    

`relativeProtocol`

type: boolean default: false

If true, the protocol is considered optional when validating the syntax of the given URL. This means that both http:// and https:// are valid but also relative URLs that contain no protocol (e.g. //example.com).

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        // src/Entity/Author.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    #[Assert\Url(
        relativeProtocol: true,
    )]
    protected string $bioUrl;
}
    

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        # config/validator/validation.yaml
App\Entity\Author:
    properties:
        bioUrl:
            - Url: { relativeProtocol: true }
    

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        <!-- config/validator/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping https://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="App\Entity\Author">
        <property name="bioUrl">
            <constraint name="Url">
                <option name="relativeProtocol">true</option>
            </constraint>
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
    

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        // src/Entity/Author.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;

class Author
{
    // ...

    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata): void
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('bioUrl', new Assert\Url([
            'relativeProtocol' => true,
        ]));
    }
}
    

`requireTld`

type: boolean default: false

7.1

The requireTld option was introduced in Symfony 7.1.

7.1

Not setting the requireTld option is deprecated since Symfony 7.1 and will default to true in Symfony 8.0.

By default, URLs like https://aaa or https://foobar are considered valid because they are tecnically correct according to the URL spec. If you set this option to true, the host part of the URL will have to include a TLD (top-level domain name): e.g. https://example.com will be valid but https://example won't.

Note

This constraint does not validate that the given TLD value is included in the list of official top-level domains (because that list is growing continuously and it's hard to keep track of it).

`tldMessage`

type: string default: This URL does not contain a TLD.

7.1

The tldMessage option was introduced in Symfony 7.1.

This message is shown if the requireTld option is set to true and the URL does not contain at least one TLD.

You can use the following parameters in this message:

Parameter	Description
`{{ value }}`	The current (invalid) value
`{{ label }}`	Corresponding form field label

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        // src/Entity/Website.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Website
{
    #[Assert\Url(
        requireTld: true,
        tldMessage: 'Add at least one TLD to the {{ value }} URL.',
    )]
    protected string $homepageUrl;
}
    

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        # config/validator/validation.yaml
App\Entity\Website:
    properties:
        homepageUrl:
            - Url:
                requireTld: true
                tldMessage: Add at least one TLD to the {{ value }} URL.
    

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        <!-- config/validator/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping https://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="App\Entity\Website">
        <property name="homepageUrl">
            <constraint name="Url">
                <option name="requireTld">true</option>
                <option name="tldMessage">Add at least one TLD to the {{ value }} URL.</option>
            </constraint>
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
    

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        // src/Entity/Website.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;

class Website
{
    // ...

    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata): void
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('homepageUrl', new Assert\Url([
            'requireTld' => true,
            'tldMessage' => 'Add at least one TLD to the {{ value }} URL.',
        ]));
    }
}
    

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