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

I used this on a few projects, I don't believe I've run into issues, but I'm sure it's not exhaustive:

$text = preg_replace(
  '#((https?|ftp)://(\S*?\.\S*?))([\s)\[\]{},;"\':<]|\.\s|$)#i',
  "'$3$4'",
  $text
);

Most of the random junk at the end is to deal with situations like http://domain.com. in a sentence (to avoid matching the trailing period). I'm sure it could be cleaned up but since it worked. I've more or less just copied it over from project to project.