URL parsing in PHP

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Do any PHP parsers exist that get all urls out of a string? I'd like an alternative to regex for getting all urls out of a string.

Update:

    $urls = "http://stackoverflow.com/question
             http://stackoverflow.com/questions";

    //no space between urls
    $urls = "http://stackoverflow.com/questionshttp://stackoverflow.com/questiond";

Any code that is going to pull URL's from a string is going to use RegEx. — AndrewR, Oct 08 '11 at 06:38
if you need to get from html content then you can use html parsing, let me know if you would like to know — Imran Omar Bukhsh, Oct 08 '11 at 11:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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There is no very-easy alternative to regex. But It has been solved using regex already, see Extract URLs from text in PHP and PHP validation/regex for URL .

Regex is quite useful though. Perl and Javascript and Java, etc etc

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Oct 08 '11 at 06:36

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