Extract url with .swf in the end from string

Question

I want to extract a url ending with .swf using php.

EXAMPLE

TEST TEST TEST http://website.com/example.swf

I want to get the url with the .swf

I used a function preg_replace()

preg_replace('!http://[^?#]+\.(?:swf|SWF)!Ui','', $content);

but it extract the url + some words after the url

THANKS..

possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/4390556/extract-url-from-string — Odilon Grisi
– Odilon Grisi, Commented Jul 25, 2016 at 19:16
thnk You @Odilon Grisi but i went to get the url with .swf not any url in the string — Anas Zilali
– Anas Zilali, Commented Jul 25, 2016 at 19:18
why not use parse_url? php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php — Honk der Hase
– Honk der Hase, Commented Jul 25, 2016 at 19:21
I think that parse_url work with urls not strings it give you an array contain informations from url like host .... — Anas Zilali
– Anas Zilali, Commented Jul 25, 2016 at 19:27

Roey Haim · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-25 21:54:25Z

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After some clarification on what you need i think this will help you.

preg_match_all('#(?P<url>https?://[^\s]+\.swf) (?P<description>[^\n]+)#uiD', $content, $results);
$data = [];
foreach($results['url'] as $key => $value) {
    $data[] = [
         'url' => $value,
         'description' => $results['description'][$key]
    ];
}

// Here you can put your code for saving the data you want.
// if you need to replace the content urls with the <object> tag:
$content = preg_replace('#(https?://[^\s]+\.swf)#uiD', '<object src="$1"></object>', $content);

edited Jul 25, 2016 at 21:54

answered Jul 25, 2016 at 20:11

Roey Haim

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Anas Zilali Over a year ago

it get the seems thing

Roey Haim Over a year ago

Please post an example text you use, what happens after the preg_replace. the \b should do the job and not touch anything other then the url

Anas Zilali Over a year ago

I think that the problem is not from your function i need another function in php not preg_replace like explod or something else , THANKS

Roey Haim Over a year ago

What exactly you try to do?

Anas Zilali Over a year ago

what want to do is geting the content of post wordpress and extract the url that end with .swf and put it in <object> and get other text and put it in description under the object

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