Question

How to extract URL from string in PHP

Answer 1

$s = "website: https://www.collectivesolver.com/ Programming & Software Q&A";

$regex = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";
 
preg_match($regex, $s, $url);
 
print_r($url);

    

/*
run:

Array
(
    [0] => https://www.collectivesolver.com/
    [1] => https
    [2] => /
)

*/

 

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Answer 2

$s = "website: https://www.collectivesolver.com/ Programming & Software Q&A";

preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/))#', $s, $url);

print_r($url);

    

/*
run:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => https://www.collectivesolver.com/
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => /
        )

)

*/

 

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