I got the following code (from this forum -- thanx!) to pull URL's out of a text string:
preg_match_all('/(http:\/\/|www.)[\s\'">]+/', $text, $matches);
$urls = $matches[0];
Now I can't quite get how to tweak it to skip over one particular URL (mine!).
Can someone please insert 'mysite.com' appropriately in the above expression to pull all URL's EXCEPT mysite.com.
maybe try this:
preg_match_all('/(http:\/\/|www\.)(?!www.\mysite\.com)(?!mysite\.com)[^\s\'">]+/', $test, $matches);
Thanks, I'll give that a try (I'm away from my system for a few days so can't get to it immediately)
Not sure about the '?!' - doesn't the ? go after the sequence, like (my.site.com)? and I thought ^ is the negation character, not !
Anyway, you clued me into what might have been wrong with my own attempts -- I wasn't escaping the . in mysite.com
the two (?!) expressions don't chew up any characters at all and merely make an assertion about what goes in their place...i don't know if it's look-ahead or look-behind but you can read about it here:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php
Great, and thanks for that link. I had a few reg-ex tutorial pages, but didn't know the manual had a definitive explanation (though I guess it only makes sense that it would :p )
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