URL's out of text?

KashKurcura

Hello:

Could someone please tell me if it is possible to get all the URL's out of text?

$text = "Get this url www.foo.com and this url http://www.foo.org out of this text.";

www.foo.com
www.foo.org

-Thanks,
KKurcura

Code_guy

try

$matchCount = preg_match_all("/\b([A-Za-z\-_]+:\/\/)?([0-9A-Za-z\-_]+\.)+(com|net|org|edu|mil|gov|biz|\w{2})[\.\?\/#=&0-9A-Za-z\-_]*\b/", $text, $matches);

since you don't want to match just anything with a . in it I tried to be more restrictive by limiting top level domains

$matchCount will be the number of matches found and
$matches[0] will be the array of url's found

this will also find url's like shttp://www.foo.org/file.php?var1=val1&var2=val2

KashKurcura

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.

I tried what you have and for some reason I get an error " Unknown modifier '/' ".

Do you know why that would be?

Thanks,
KKurcura

Code_guy

for some reason it removed all the backslashes from the line

i'll try again without the [ php ] tags

$matchCount = preg_match_all("/\b([A-Za-z-]+:\/\/)?([0-9A-Za-z-]+.)+(com|net|org|edu|mil|gov|biz|\w{2})[.\?\/#=&0-9A-Za-z-_]*\b/", $text, $matches);