How to write in the rules of the model for the attribute, so that it has only a whole word consisting of lowercase Latin, numbers and a dash -?

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[['url'], 'match', 'pattern' => '...']
How to write in the rules of the model so that the url attribute has only a whole word consisting of lowercase Latin letters, numbers and dashes -

Answer 1

use UrlValidator to check if url is valid , don't reinvent the wheel with regular expressions