Removing http:// links from a string

[etrader]

I have a string containing long text. How can I remove links (in plain text, not hyperlink) starting with http://? In fact, I need a code to replace everything that is started with "http://" with "".

 

Thanks 

[Anti-Moronic]

str_replace('http://', '')

[etrader]

Thanks, but this replaces only "http://". I want to delete the whole phrase (the url).

[BlueSkyIS]

given a URL without context, it's easy to tell where the url starts but not so easy to tell where it ends. is there some context for these URLs? Are they always "quoted" or anything? It would help a lot if we could see sample data.

[etrader]

The end of each url is a space; as a matter of fact, we should consider the phrase between http:// and the next (first) space

[BlueSkyIS]

this works with a simple test, but might need tweaked

 

$content = "AS DGASDGAsa 3434 434SDGASDGADGhttp://www.cnn.com/something/somethingelse.html?whatever=4535&test=sagasdg MORE CONTENT heraes tq435345345q";

$pattern = '~http://[^\s]*~i';

$content = preg_replace($pattern, '', $content);

echo "content: $content ";

 

output:

 

content: AS DGASDGAsa 3434 434SDGASDGADG MORE CONTENT heraes tq435345345q

[cyberRobot]

You could remove the link based on the location of the http:// (or https://) and the location of the first space after the position of the http:// part. Note that this will fail if there is a space in the link.

http://www.example.com/my page.html

[etrader]

As far as I am testing, it is completely OK Thanks 

[.josh]

for good measure, you could do:

 

$pattern = '~((ht|f)tps?|irc)://[^\s]*~i';

 

This will also match https, ftp and irc protocols.