extract url from a string

[freeriders]

Greetings Folk

 

I'm a php rookie and I have hard time with Reg Ex

 

let say that I have a text named mytext.txt

 

the file has the following content content

 

http://www.vitoriakitecenter.com.br/        to totototo  some texte here www.northcoastkiteboarding.com  http://kitesurfaustralia.com.au o totototo  some texte here www.ruakakakitesports.co.nz o totototo  some texte here <a href="http://www.airbossworld.co.uk" style="color:#000000" target="_blank">www.airbossworld.co.uk</a>

 

I wish to put in an array all the urls (specially if they are NOT within the <a href=" tag )

 

to get the content of my text file in a string I do

 

$toto = file_get_contents('mytext.txt');

 

so no problem to have the string with all the content of mytext.txt

 

I just can't manage to use preg_match_all to be able to extract all possible way something that look like an url

 

so would like the following output

 

Array
(
    [0] => http://www.vitoriakitecenter.com.br
    [1] => www.northcoastkiteboarding.com
    [2] => http://kitesurfaustralia.com.au
    [3] => www.ruakakakitesports.co.nz
    [4] => http://www.airbossworld.co.uk
)

 

I have tried several snipets out there but can't manage to get it work

 

any tips would be much much much appreciated

 

thank you very muchin advance for your help

 

Stefany

[Catfish]

http://www.the-art-of-web.com/php/parse-links/

 

this page will probably prove very helpful to you.

[freeriders]

Thank you catfish for the link, very interresting tutorial thank again

 

Steffy