Url Extraction From Page / Text String

[Guest]

Hy guys. I'm busting my head with this for whole day. I try to extract the first url that is written in my content (wordpress post).

 

 

 

http://soundcloud.com/seq_dragos-1/survivor-eye-of-the-tiger


[ By Survivor | <a href="http://www.lyrics007.com/Survivor%20Lyrics/Eye%20Of%20The%20Tiger%20Lyrics.html" target="_blank">Lyrics</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Rocky-Story-Soundtrack-Anthology/dp/B00000HZY2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353265582&sr=8-1&keywords=the+rocky+story" target="_blank">Get the album</a> ]

 

So, I have this URL I want to extract: http://soundcloud.co...ye-of-the-tiger on a first line.

 

 

I tried dozens of solutions. From regex and preg_match to parse_url...

 

At the moment I have this code:

 

unction parseAudio($path){
$parsedUrl = parse_url($path);

if($parsedUrl['host'] == 'soundcloud.com' || $parsedUrl['host'] == 'www.soundcloud.com'){
// for soundcloud
$embedUrl = parse_url($path, PHP_URL_PATH);
echo "http://soundcloud.com$embedUrl";
}
}

 

 

This code kind of does what I want. I get this:

<iframe width="580" height="435" src="http://soundcloud.com/seq_dragos-1/survivor-eye-of-the-tiger____[ By Survivor | <a href="http://www.lyrics007.com/Survivor%20Lyrics/Eye%20Of%20The%20Tiger%20Lyrics.html" target="_blank">Lyrics</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Rocky-Story-Soundtrack-Anthology/dp/B00000HZY2/ref=sr_1_1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 

 

Problem is that path doesn't stop after URL. It continues on to the text.

 

What can be done with this? Please, if anybody has any idea, share it. Thank you!

Edited November 18, 2012 by seito86

[AyKay47]

The function you wrote really doesn't do anything helpful to your situation.

What RegExp have you tried so far?