Question

I have a big text inside a var on php, im looking for a good and fast method to retrive all the links inside this text and store them into an array.

The text is plain ascii and the links are the common ones like http://thesite.com or http://www.thesite.com. Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

$text = 'Lorem ipsum http://thesite.com dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
incididunt https://www.thesite.com ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut http://www.thesite.com enim ad minim veniam,';

$pattern = '!(https?://[^\s]+)!'; // refine this for better/more specific results

if (preg_match_all($pattern, $text, $matches)) {
    list(, $links) = ($matches);
    print_r($links);
}