Identifying if a URL is present in a string

Question

Hi can someone help me identify if a url is present in a string using PHP?

I want to pull in a full string i.e. \"Hi please visit http://domain.com/12345 today\" and str

Answer 1

You probably want something like this:

RegEx Guru: Detecting URLs in Text

Read up on this and understand the trade-offs of each approach. For me, \bhttp://\S+ is totally acceptable, because I'm not interested in catering to those who would put links with spaces (or surround their links with parens) into plain text... (but I'm not very accomodating I guess)