How to check if a URL is valid in Laravel?

Question

Laravel

How can I check if the url is valid?

public function addResource(Request $request)
    {
        $url = $request->post('url');
        $result = $this->service->saveContent($url);

        if ($result !== null) {

            return response()->json(['status' => 'ok', 'message' => 'Url has been added', 'data' => $result]);
        }

        return response()->json(['status' => 'error', 'message' => 'Error', 'data' => ['url' => $url]]);
    }

Answer 1

https://www.regextester.com/94502

Answer 2

There is an active_url validation rule.
If you only need to check the format, then you can use the regex rule and specify the google regular expression for the URL there.