Extract URLs from text in PHP

Question

I have this text:

$string = \"this is my friend\'s website http://example.com I think it is coll\";

How can I extract the link into another

Answer 1

preg_match_all('/[a-z]+:\/\/\S+/', $string, $matches);

This is an easy way that'd work for a lot of cases, not all. All the matches are put in $matches. Note that this do not cover links in anchor elements (<a href=""...), but that wasn't in your example either.

Answer 2

public function find_links($post_content){
    $reg_exUrl = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";
    // Check if there is a url in the text
    if(preg_match_all($reg_exUrl, $post_content, $urls)) {
        // make the urls hyper links,
        foreach($urls[0] as $url){
            $post_content = str_replace($url, '<a href="'.$url.'" rel="nofollow"> LINK </a>', $post_content);
        }
        //var_dump($post_content);die(); //uncomment to see result
        //return text with hyper links
        return $post_content;
    } else {
        // if no urls in the text just return the text
        return $post_content; 
    }
}