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 (