Question

If I have a string that contains a url (for examples sake, we’ll call it $url) such as;

$url = "Here is a funny site http://www.tunyurl.com/34934";

How do i remove the URL from the string?
Difficulty is, urls might also show up without the http://, such as ;

$url = "Here is another funny site www.tinyurl.com/55555";

There is no HTML present. How would i start a search if http or www exists, then remove the text/numbers/symbols until the first space?

Answer 1

I re-read the question, here is a function that would work as intended:

function cleaner($url) {
  $U = explode(' ',$url);

  $W =array();
  foreach ($U as $k => $u) {
    if (stristr($u,'http') || (count(explode('.',$u)) > 1)) {
      unset($U[$k]);
      return cleaner( implode(' ',$U));
    }
  }
  return implode(' ',$U);
}

$url = "Here is another funny site www.tinyurl.com/55555 and http://www.tinyurl.com/55555 and img.hostingsite.com/badpic.jpg";
echo "Cleaned: " . cleaner($url);

Edit #2/#3 (I must be bored). Here is a version that verifies there is a TLD within the URL:

function containsTLD($string) {
  preg_match(
    "/(AC($|\/)|\.AD($|\/)|\.AE($|\/)|\.AERO($|\/)|\.AF($|\/)|\.AG($|\/)|\.AI($|\/)|\.AL($|\/)|\.AM($|\/)|\.AN($|\/)|\.AO($|\/)|\.AQ($|\/)|\.AR($|\/)|\.ARPA($|\/)|\.AS($|\/)|\.ASIA($|\/)|\.AT($|\/)|\.AU($|\/)|\.AW($|\/)|\.AX($|\/)|\.AZ($|\/)|\.BA($|\/)|\.BB($|\/)|\.BD($|\/)|\.BE($|\/)|\.BF($|\/)|\.BG($|\/)|\.BH($|\/)|\.BI($|\/)|\.BIZ($|\/)|\.BJ($|\/)|\.BM($|\/)|\.BN($|\/)|\.BO($|\/)|\.BR($|\/)|\.BS($|\/)|\.BT($|\/)|\.BV($|\/)|\.BW($|\/)|\.BY($|\/)|\.BZ($|\/)|\.CA($|\/)|\.CAT($|\/)|\.CC($|\/)|\.CD($|\/)|\.CF($|\/)|\.CG($|\/)|\.CH($|\/)|\.CI($|\/)|\.CK($|\/)|\.CL($|\/)|\.CM($|\/)|\.CN($|\/)|\.CO($|\/)|\.COM($|\/)|\.COOP($|\/)|\.CR($|\/)|\.CU($|\/)|\.CV($|\/)|\.CX($|\/)|\.CY($|\/)|\.CZ($|\/)|\.DE($|\/)|\.DJ($|\/)|\.DK($|\/)|\.DM($|\/)|\.DO($|\/)|\.DZ($|\/)|\.EC($|\/)|\.EDU($|\/)|\.EE($|\/)|\.EG($|\/)|\.ER($|\/)|\.ES($|\/)|\.ET($|\/)|\.EU($|\/)|\.FI($|\/)|\.FJ($|\/)|\.FK($|\/)|\.FM($|\/)|\.FO($|\/)|\.FR($|\/)|\.GA($|\/)|\.GB($|\/)|\.GD($|\/)|\.GE($|\/)|\.GF($|\/)|\.GG($|\/)|\.GH($|\/)|\.GI($|\/)|\.GL($|\/)|\.GM($|\/)|\.GN($|\/)|\.GOV($|\/)|\.GP($|\/)|\.GQ($|\/)|\.GR($|\/)|\.GS($|\/)|\.GT($|\/)|\.GU($|\/)|\.GW($|\/)|\.GY($|\/)|\.HK($|\/)|\.HM($|\/)|\.HN($|\/)|\.HR($|\/)|\.HT($|\/)|\.HU($|\/)|\.ID($|\/)|\.IE($|\/)|\.IL($|\/)|\.IM($|\/)|\.IN($|\/)|\.INFO($|\/)|\.INT($|\/)|\.IO($|\/)|\.IQ($|\/)|\.IR($|\/)|\.IS($|\/)|\.IT($|\/)|\.JE($|\/)|\.JM($|\/)|\.JO($|\/)|\.JOBS($|\/)|\.JP($|\/)|\.KE($|\/)|\.KG($|\/)|\.KH($|\/)|\.KI($|\/)|\.KM($|\/)|\.KN($|\/)|\.KP($|\/)|\.KR($|\/)|\.KW($|\/)|\.KY($|\/)|\.KZ($|\/)|\.LA($|\/)|\.LB($|\/)|\.LC($|\/)|\.LI($|\/)|\.LK($|\/)|\.LR($|\/)|\.LS($|\/)|\.LT($|\/)|\.LU($|\/)|\.LV($|\/)|\.LY($|\/)|\.MA($|\/)|\.MC($|\/)|\.MD($|\/)|\.ME($|\/)|\.MG($|\/)|\.MH($|\/)|\.MIL($|\/)|\.MK($|\/)|\.ML($|\/)|\.MM($|\/)|\.MN($|\/)|\.MO($|\/)|\.MOBI($|\/)|\.MP($|\/)|\.MQ($|\/)|\.MR($|\/)|\.MS($|\/)|\.MT($|\/)|\.MU($|\/)|\.MUSEUM($|\/)|\.MV($|\/)|\.MW($|\/)|\.MX($|\/)|\.MY($|\/)|\.MZ($|\/)|\.NA($|\/)|\.NAME($|\/)|\.NC($|\/)|\.NE($|\/)|\.NET($|\/)|\.NF($|\/)|\.NG($|\/)|\.NI($|\/)|\.NL($|\/)|\.NO($|\/)|\.NP($|\/)|\.NR($|\/)|\.NU($|\/)|\.NZ($|\/)|\.OM($|\/)|\.ORG($|\/)|\.PA($|\/)|\.PE($|\/)|\.PF($|\/)|\.PG($|\/)|\.PH($|\/)|\.PK($|\/)|\.PL($|\/)|\.PM($|\/)|\.PN($|\/)|\.PR($|\/)|\.PRO($|\/)|\.PS($|\/)|\.PT($|\/)|\.PW($|\/)|\.PY($|\/)|\.QA($|\/)|\.RE($|\/)|\.RO($|\/)|\.RS($|\/)|\.RU($|\/)|\.RW($|\/)|\.SA($|\/)|\.SB($|\/)|\.SC($|\/)|\.SD($|\/)|\.SE($|\/)|\.SG($|\/)|\.SH($|\/)|\.SI($|\/)|\.SJ($|\/)|\.SK($|\/)|\.SL($|\/)|\.SM($|\/)|\.SN($|\/)|\.SO($|\/)|\.SR($|\/)|\.ST($|\/)|\.SU($|\/)|\.SV($|\/)|\.SY($|\/)|\.SZ($|\/)|\.TC($|\/)|\.TD($|\/)|\.TEL($|\/)|\.TF($|\/)|\.TG($|\/)|\.TH($|\/)|\.TJ($|\/)|\.TK($|\/)|\.TL($|\/)|\.TM($|\/)|\.TN($|\/)|\.TO($|\/)|\.TP($|\/)|\.TR($|\/)|\.TRAVEL($|\/)|\.TT($|\/)|\.TV($|\/)|\.TW($|\/)|\.TZ($|\/)|\.UA($|\/)|\.UG($|\/)|\.UK($|\/)|\.US($|\/)|\.UY($|\/)|\.UZ($|\/)|\.VA($|\/)|\.VC($|\/)|\.VE($|\/)|\.VG($|\/)|\.VI($|\/)|\.VN($|\/)|\.VU($|\/)|\.WF($|\/)|\.WS($|\/)|\.XN--0ZWM56D($|\/)|\.XN--11B5BS3A9AJ6G($|\/)|\.XN--80AKHBYKNJ4F($|\/)|\.XN--9T4B11YI5A($|\/)|\.XN--DEBA0AD($|\/)|\.XN--G6W251D($|\/)|\.XN--HGBK6AJ7F53BBA($|\/)|\.XN--HLCJ6AYA9ESC7A($|\/)|\.XN--JXALPDLP($|\/)|\.XN--KGBECHTV($|\/)|\.XN--ZCKZAH($|\/)|\.YE($|\/)|\.YT($|\/)|\.YU($|\/)|\.ZA($|\/)|\.ZM($|\/)|\.ZW)/i",
    $string,
    $M);
  $has_tld = (count($M) > 0) ? true : false;
  return $has_tld;
}

function cleaner($url) {
  $U = explode(' ',$url);

  $W =array();
  foreach ($U as $k => $u) {
    if (stristr($u,".")) { //only preg_match if there is a dot    
      if (containsTLD($u) === true) {
      unset($U[$k]);
      return cleaner( implode(' ',$U));
    }      
    }
  }
  return implode(' ',$U);
}


$url = "Here is another funny site badurl.badone somesite.ca/worse.jpg but this badsite.com www.tinyurl.com/55555 and http://www.tinyurl.com/55555 and img.hostingsite.com/badpic.jpg";
echo "Cleaned: " . cleaner($url);

returns:

Cleaned: Here is another funny site badurl.badone but this and and