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title: "JavaScript stream_is_local function"
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- /functions/view/stream_is_local:851
- /functions/view/stream_is_local
- /functions/view/851
- /functions/stream_is_local:851
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A JavaScript equivalent of PHP's stream_is_local

{% codeblock stream/stream_is_local.js lang:js https://raw.github.com/kvz/phpjs/master/functions/stream/stream_is_local.js raw on github %}
function stream_is_local (stream_or_url) {
  // http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
  // +   original by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
  // *     example 1: stream_is_local('/etc');
  // *     returns 1: true

  if (typeof stream_or_url === 'string') {
    return ((/^(https?|ftps?|ssl|tls):/).test(stream_or_url)) ? false : true; // Need a better check than this
  }
  return stream_or_url.is_local ? true : false;
}
{% endcodeblock %}

 - [view on github](https://github.com/kvz/phpjs/blob/master/functions/stream/stream_is_local.js)
 - [edit on github](https://github.com/kvz/phpjs/edit/master/functions/stream/stream_is_local.js)

### Example 1
This code
{% codeblock lang:js example %}
stream_is_local('/etc');
{% endcodeblock %}

Should return
{% codeblock lang:js returns %}
true
{% endcodeblock %}


### Other PHP functions in the stream extension
{% render_partial _includes/custom/stream.html %}