How can we use PHP to identify URL's in a string and store them in an array?
Cannot use the explode function if the URL contains a comma, it wont give correct results.
6 Answers
REGEX is the answer for your problem. Taking the Answer of Object Manipulator.. all it's missing is to exclude "commas", so you can try this code that excludes them and gives 3 separated URL's as output:
$string = "The text you want to filter goes here. http://google.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0,https://instagram.com/hellow/";
preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^,\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^,[:punct:]\s]|/))#', $string, $match);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($match[0]);
echo "</pre>";
and the output is
Array
(
[0] => http://google.com
[1] => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0
[2] => https://instagram.com/hellow/
)
10 Comments
MrWhite
Maybe you'd want to make it case-insensitive by adding the
i modifier. ie. ...#i'
relipse
Just a note, some URLs use commas in their query strings
Marco
@aampudia: Very good approach. But is there a simple way to find urls without protocol, too? Like: "The text you want to filter goes here. www.google.de, www.youtube.com".
ashleedawg
Note that url's don't always include
http or https, since they can also begin with only //.
aampudia
@shyammakwana.me you have to delete the [:punct:] part of the regular expression, that tells it to ingore all punctuation, if you remove that it will take the underscore at the end
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please try to use below regex
$regex = '/https?\:\/\/[^\",]+/i';
preg_match_all($regex, $string, $matches);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($matches[0]);
Hope this will work for you
1 Comment
patrick
this query is 'greedy' when the url's are not separated by a comma.
You can try Regex here:
$string = "The text you want to filter goes here. http://google.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0,https://instagram.com/hellow/";
preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/))#', $string, $match);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($match[0]);
echo "</pre>";
This gives the following output:
Array
(
[0] => http://google.com
[1] => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0,https://instagram.com/hellow/
)
2 Comments
Azraar Azward
it should have 3 results in the output array. not 2.
http://google.com ,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0 and https://instagram.com/hellow/
ion
[\w\d]+ === [\w]+
try this
function getUrls($string)
{
$regex = '/https?\:\/\/[^\" ]+/i';
preg_match_all($regex, $string, $matches);
return ($matches[0]);
}
$urls = getUrls($string);
print_r($urls);
or
$str = '<a href="http://foobar.com"> | Hello world Im a http://google.fr | Did you mean:http://google.fr/index.php?id=1&b=6#2310';
$pattern = '`.*?((http|ftp)://[\w#$&+,\/:;[email protected]]+)[^\w#$&+,\/:;[email protected]]*?`i';
if (preg_match_all($pattern,$str,$matches))
{
print_r($matches[1]);
}
it will works
4 Comments
Azraar Azward
No, still its giving 2 results. there are 3 URL's but only 2 is returned. can u see?
Array ( [0] => http://google.com, [1] => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0,https://instagram.com/hellow/ )
khan
stackoverflow.com/questions/4390556/extract-url-from-string may be this wil help you
Azraar Azward
can u provide a example with that regex?
Azraar Azward
no it doesnt work for my string.
$string = "The text you want to filter goes here. http://google.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0,https://instagram.com/hellow/";$urlstring = "The text you want to filter goes here. http://google.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0,https://instagram.com/hellow/";
preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^,\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^,[:punct:]\s]|/))#', $urlstring , $result);
print_r($result[0]);
1 Comment
Azraar Azward
no, it still gives only 2 URL's. it should give 3 URL's as a result.
$string = "The text you want to filter goes here. http://google.com,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0,https://instagram.com/hellow/";
preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/))#',
$string, $match);
echo "<pre>"; $arr = explode(",", $match[0][1]);
print_r($match[0][0]); print_r($arr); echo "</pre>";
preg_match_all("/\b((https?):\/\/)?([a-z0-9-.]*)\.([a-z]{2,3})([-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|$!:,.;]*[A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$])/i", $string, $match);use this one