Remove http://

[SkyRanger]

Not sure if this is possible.  What I am trying to do is remove a section of text a user posts.

 

ie:  go to this url:  http://url.com  or http://this.domain.org

 

I already have it to strip they <a href="whatever

 

but not sure if I can do the other.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

[spiderwell]

use str_replace() or substr_replace()

[Maq]

Use:

str_replace

 

or if you need to use something a bit more dynamic, then you need regex:

preg_replace

[drisate]

You can remove parts of string with str_replace()

 

Ex:

$url = str_replace('http://', '', $url);

 

EDIT: lol Maq you beated me hehe

[SkyRanger]

Ok how would I do that if it is in the middle of a test ie:

 

 

Hello visit this site it is cool http://www.thissite.com

 

$comtext = "Hello visit this site it is cool http://www.thissite.com"

 

This is the code i have now:

$comname = $rowco['mcname'];
$comtext = $rowco['mctext'];

echo "<b>";
echo strip_tags($comname);
echo "</b><br>";
echo nl2br(strip_tags($comtext));
echo "<hr>";

[Maq]

We told you what function to use and you didn't even try it...

[SkyRanger]

Stupid me, sorry Maq, I overlooked one of the posts.

[Maq]

Stupid me, sorry Maq, I overlooked one of the posts.

There was actually 3.

 

Just call the function on the string you want and it will replace all occurrences.

[spiderwell]

someone slap me please

[SkyRanger]

Slap me also, I need it...lol.  Thanks everyone for you help.  Got it working.

[SkyRanger]

Guess I never got it working...well sort of.  using str_replace I can get the http:// and www. to  remove using an array.  But is there a way using string replace to remove the who URL that somebody posts.  It might be in the str_replace php page but I seem to be overlooking something.

 

$urlgarbage = array("http://", "www.");
$comtext = str_replace($urlgarbage, 'BADCODE', $comtexta); 

echo $comtext;

 

So what I am saying is I would like to do something like:

 

Change:  Check out http://www.thissite.tld now.

To:  Check out BADCODE now.

 

Is this possible using str_replace?

 

 

[SkyRanger]

Finally got it working:

 

$url_regexp = "(https?://)?(www\.)?([a-zA-z0-9\.])*[a-zA-Z0-9]*\.[a-z]{2,3}";
$cmsg = ereg_replace($url_regexp, '', $comtexta);

 

That did the trick i needed.