Extract url with .swf in the end from string

Question

I want to extract a url ending with .swf using php.

EXAMPLE

TEST TEST TEST http://website.com/example.swf

I want to get the url with the .swf

I used a function preg_replace()

preg_replace('!http://[^?#]+\.(?:swf|SWF)!Ui','', $content);

but it extract the url + some words after the url

THANKS..

possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4390556/extract-url-from-string — Odilon Grisi, Jul 25 '16 at 19:16
thnk You @Odilon Grisi but i went to get the url with .swf not any url in the string — Anas Zilali, Jul 25 '16 at 19:18
why not use parse_url? http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php — Honk der Hase, Jul 25 '16 at 19:21
I think that parse_url work with urls not strings it give you an array contain informations from url like host .... — Anas Zilali, Jul 25 '16 at 19:27

Roey Haim · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-25T21:54:25.837

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After some clarification on what you need i think this will help you.

preg_match_all('#(?P<url>https?://[^\s]+\.swf) (?P<description>[^\n]+)#uiD', $content, $results);
$data = [];
foreach($results['url'] as $key => $value) {
    $data[] = [
         'url' => $value,
         'description' => $results['description'][$key]
    ];
}

// Here you can put your code for saving the data you want.
// if you need to replace the content urls with the <object> tag:
$content = preg_replace('#(https?://[^\s]+\.swf)#uiD', '<object src="$1"></object>', $content);

edited Jul 25 '16 at 21:54

answered Jul 25 '16 at 20:11

Roey Haim

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it get the seems thing – Anas Zilali Jul 25 '16 at 20:16
Please post an example text you use, what happens after the preg_replace. the \b should do the job and not touch anything other then the url – Roey Haim Jul 25 '16 at 20:20
I think that the problem is not from your function i need another function in php not preg_replace like explod or something else , THANKS – Anas Zilali Jul 25 '16 at 20:29
What exactly you try to do? – Roey Haim Jul 25 '16 at 20:30
what want to do is geting the content of post wordpress and extract the url that end with .swf and put it in – Anas Zilali Jul 25 '16 at 20:34
Then why use preg_replace? If you want to receive the url, use preg_match_all – Roey Haim Jul 25 '16 at 20:35
Or use the preg_replace with ' – Roey Haim Jul 25 '16 at 20:38
So how to use preg_match_all in this case – Anas Zilali Jul 25 '16 at 20:39
If all you need is to replace the text with an object tag, use my last answer – Roey Haim Jul 25 '16 at 20:42
no i want to store description in one variable and url that end with .swf in another variable. that what i want exactly – Anas Zilali Jul 25 '16 at 20:47
And from where you get the description? – Roey Haim Jul 25 '16 at 20:56
from the content of the post in wordpress. – Anas Zilali Jul 25 '16 at 21:13
all posts are like this ------------------------------------- [IMAGE OF THE POST] http://website.com/example.swf DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE ..... ------------------------------------------------------------------ – Anas Zilali Jul 25 '16 at 21:14

Extract url with .swf in the end from string

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