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

You could try this to find the link and revise the link (add the href link).

$reg_exUrl = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";

// The Text you want to filter for urls
$text = "The text you want to filter goes here. http://example.com";

if(preg_match($reg_exUrl, $text, $url)) {

       echo preg_replace($reg_exUrl, "{$url[0]} ", $text);

} else {

       echo "No url in the text";

}

refer here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php