How to remove everything but URL PHP

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Regex to match URL

I know regexp should be able to do this but I can't figure out how to do it. I wan't to be able to search through a string of text and return only the url's. How would you do this in PHP?

Example

hello there everyone visit this link: http://google.com and this one as well http://amazon.com

would return:

http://google.com

http://amazon.com

Any ideas?

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1141848/regex-to-match-url — Paweł Adamski, Aug 23 '11 at 19:53
[URL Regex](http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=url%20regex) — Xeoncross, Aug 23 '11 at 19:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '11 at 20:05

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This should work:

$text = "hello there everyone visit this link: http://google.com and this one as well http://amazon.com";
preg_match_all('/\b(([\w-]+:\/\/?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|\/)))/',$text,$matches);
print_r($matches[0]);

answered Aug 23 '11 at 20:05

Keyne Viana

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Thanks, works a charm. I hate writing regular expression – vincentieo Feb 27 '14 at 21:29

How to remove everything but URL PHP

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