PHP validation/regex for URL

Question

I\'ve been looking for a simple regex for URLs, does anybody have one handy that works well? I didn\'t find one with the zend framework validation classes and have seen sev

Answer 1

Here is the way I did it. But I want to mentoin that I am not so shure about the regex. But It should work thou :)

$pattern = "#((http|https)://(\S*?\.\S*?))(\s|\;|\)|\]|\[|\{|\}|,|”|\"|'|:|\<|$|\.\s)#i";
        $text = preg_replace_callback($pattern,function($m){
                return "$m[1]$m[4]";
            },
            $text);

This way you won't need the eval marker on your pattern.

Hope it helps :)