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

There are a lot of edge cases with urls. Like url could contain brackets or not contain protocol etc. Thats why regex is not enough.

I created a PHP library that could deal with lots of edge cases: Url highlight.

Example:

getUrls("this is my friend's website http://example.com I think it is coll");
// return: ['http://example.com']

For more details see readme. For covered url cases see test.